Daydreams and Nightmares
A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War
Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877)
| Author: | Brent Tarter | ISBN: | 9780813937106 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press | Publication: | April 29, 2015 |
| Imprint: | University of Virginia Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Brent Tarter |
| ISBN: | 9780813937106 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Publication: | April 29, 2015 |
| Imprint: | University of Virginia Press |
| Language: | English |
From a rich trove of documents master historian Brent Tarter vividly recreates a western Virginia family's unique but representative experience of the secession crisis and the first days of the Civil War. George Berlin at first opposes secession, but comes to endorse it and is consequently run out of his hometown in what will become West Virginia, separating him from his wife and family, resulting in a correspondence that is both a love story and an epic of ordinary people in extraordinary historical circumstances.
From a rich trove of documents master historian Brent Tarter vividly recreates a western Virginia family's unique but representative experience of the secession crisis and the first days of the Civil War. George Berlin at first opposes secession, but comes to endorse it and is consequently run out of his hometown in what will become West Virginia, separating him from his wife and family, resulting in a correspondence that is both a love story and an epic of ordinary people in extraordinary historical circumstances.
