Southern Families at War

Catherine Clinton is a historian of southern history, women's history, and the American Civil War. She is currently Weissman Visiting Professor of History, Baruch College, City University of New York.

• Introduction1: Michael P. Johnson: Looking for Lost Kin: Efforts to Reunite Freed Families after Emancipation2: Michelle A. Krowl: For Better of Worse: Black Families and 'the State' in Civil War Virginia3: Donald R. Shaffer: In the Shadow of the Old Constitution: Black Civil War Veterans and the Persistence of Slave Marriage Customs4: Amy E. Murrell: "Of Necessity and Public Benefit": Southern Families and their Appeals for Protection5: Judith Lee Hunt: "High with Courage and Hope": The Middleton Family's Civil War6: E. Susan Barber: "The White Wings of Eros": Courtship and Marriage in Confederate Richmond7: Jennifer Lynn Gross: "Good Angels": Confederate Widows in Virginia8: Daniel W. Stowell: "A Family of Women and Children": The Fains of East Tennessee during Wartime9: Henry Walker: Power, Sex, and Gender Roles: The Transformation of an Alabama Planter Family during the Civil War10: Lauren F. Winner: Taking up the Cross: Conversion among Black and White Jews in the Civil War South11: Anne J. Bailey: In the Far Corner of the Confederacy: A Question of Conscience for German-Speaking Texans12: Ted Ownby: Patriarchy in the World Where There is No Parting?: Power Relations in Confederate Heaven

The quality of work is uniformly excellent. This collection will prove useful to a wide variety of scholars. It will appeal especially to those working on the Civil War, the family, gender relations or African American studies.