Midnight in America
Midnight in America

Author: Jonathan W. White

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-02-02

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1469632055

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The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night. Sleeplessness plagued the Union and Confederate armies, and dreams of war glided through the minds of Americans in both the North and South. Sometimes their nightly visions brought the horrors of the conflict vividly to life. But for others, nighttime was an escape from the hard realities of life and death in wartime. In this innovative new study, Jonathan W. White explores what dreams meant to Civil War–era Americans and what their dreams reveal about their experiences during the war. He shows how Americans grappled with their fears, desires, and struggles while they slept, and how their dreams helped them make sense of the confusion, despair, and loneliness that engulfed them. White takes readers into the deepest, darkest, and most intimate places of the Civil War, connecting the emotional experiences of soldiers and civilians to the broader history of the conflict, confirming what poets have known for centuries: there are some truths that are only revealed in the world of darkness.

The Imagined Civil War
The Imagined Civil War

Author: Alice Fahs

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010-03-15

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0807899291

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In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces. Fahs mines these rich but long-neglected resources to recover the diversity of the war's political and social meanings. Instead of narrowly portraying the Civil War as a clash between two great, white armies, popular literature offered a wide range of representations of the conflict and helped shape new modes of imagining the relationships of diverse individuals to the nation. Works that explored the war's devastating impact on white women's lives, for example, proclaimed the importance of their experiences on the home front, while popular writings that celebrated black manhood and heroism in the wake of emancipation helped readers begin to envision new roles for blacks in American life. Recovering a lost world of popular literature, The Imagined Civil War adds immeasurably to our understanding of American life and letters at a pivotal point in our history.

The Little Drummer Boy, Clarence D. McKenzie
The Little Drummer Boy, Clarence D. McKenzie

Author: Luther Goodyear Bingham

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-02-16

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780243411696

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Excerpt from The Little Drummer Boy, Clarence D. McKenzie: The Child of the Thirteenth Regiment, N. Y. S. M., And the Child of the Mission Sunday School The Leader and Captain of this great army is Jesus. He fights by the side of every soldier. The sick and the feeble he does not leave to the mercy of an enemy. He drives straight on to conquest and a crown for every one. Reader! Have you enlisted? We call for volunteers. Come - fall in - fall in. The proclamation has gone forth; the invitation is, Come take your place in the ranks; good pay; good provisions; good company; good cause; good Commander; good success; good bounty settled upon you at the end of the war. Say, will you volunteer? If you have not enlisted, do it to-day. Think what will come at the end of the war: everlasting peace, no more enemies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.