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Tables of Contents for Southern Families at War
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
ix
Introduction Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict during the Civil War
3
12
Looking for Lost Kin: Efforts to Reunite Freed Families after Emancipation
15
20
Michael P. Johnson
For Better or for Worse: Black Families and ``the State'' in Civil War Virginia
35
24
Michelle A. Krowl
In the Shadow of the Old Constitution: Black Civil War Veterans and the Persistence of Slave Marriage Customs
59
18
Donald R. Shaffer
``Of Necessity and Public Benefit'': Southern Families and Their Appeals for Protection
77
24
Amy E. Murrell
``High with Courage and Hope'': The Middleton Family's Civil War
101
18
Judith Lee Hunt
``The White Wings of Eros'': Courtship and Marriage in Confederate Richmond
119
14
E. Susan Barber
``Good Angels'': Confederate Widowhood in Virginia
133
22
Jennifer Lynn Gross
``A Family of Women and Children'': The Fains of East Tennessee during Wartime
155
20
Daniel W. Stowell
Power, Sex, and Gender Roles: The Transformation of an Alabama Planter Family during the Civil War
175
18
Henry Walker
Taking Up the Cross: Conversion among Black and White Jews in the Civil War South
193
18
Lauren F. Winner
In the Far Corner of the Confederacy: A Question of Conscience for German-Speaking Texans
211
18
Anne J. Bailey
Patriarchy in the World Where There Is No Parting?: Power Relations in the Confederate Heaven
229
Ted Ownby