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Rebel Richmond : life and death in the Confederate capital  Cover Image Book Book

Rebel Richmond : life and death in the Confederate capital / Stephen V. Ash.

Ash, Stephen V., (author.).

Summary:

"Drawing on rich, previously untapped sources, Stephen V. Ash tells an absorbing tale of the city's diverse inhabitants. Civilians and soldiers, slaves and masters, refugees and prisoners, clerks and factory workers, preachers and prostitutes, patriots and draft-dodgers, the sick and the wounded--all endured a deluge of calamities such as no other American city has ever known"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781469650982
  • ISBN: 1469650983
  • Physical Description: 286 pages, 16 pages of plates ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Richmond, Virginia: Thursday, 11 April 1861 -- Rebel patriots -- City of strangers -- Housing the multitudes -- Feeding the multitudes -- Working -- Dissent and despair -- Disorder, crime, and sin -- White supremacy and black resistance -- White society and its discontents -- Longing, suffering, and death -- 1-10 April 1865.
Subject: Richmond (Va.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Richmond (Va.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Richmond (Va.) > Economic conditions > 19th century.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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Bethlehem Main Library 975.5 (Text) 33062009284168 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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