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1 online resource (ix, 161 pages) |
Physical Medium |
monochrome |
Description |
text file |
Contents |
Diary of a Union soldier -- Slave quarters -- Waiting for Gideon Prince -- The death of a Confederate Colonel -- The mistress -- The return -- The Confederate wife -- Bringing Travis home -- Leaving Gilead. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Summary |
Dramatically compelling and historically informed, The Death of a Confederate Colonel takes us into the lives of those left behind during the Civil War. These stories, all with Arkansas settings, are filled with the trauma of the time. They tell of a Confederate woman's care of and growing affection for a wounded Union soldier, a plantation mistress's singular love for a sick slave child, and an eight-year-old girl's fight for survival against frigid cold, injury, starvation, heartbreak, and lawlessness. Here are women holding down the home front with heroism and loyalty, or, sometimes, with w. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction, American.
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Historical fiction, American. |
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War stories, American.
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War stories, American. |
Genre/Form |
War stories, American.
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Chronological Term |
1861 - 1865 |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Carr, Pat M., 1932- Death of a Confederate colonel. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006037502 (OCoLC)76074398 |
ISBN |
9781610751216 electronic book |
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1610751213 electronic book |
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9781557288356 paperback alkaline paper |
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1557288356 paperback alkaline paper |
Sudoc No. |
HI.F 3/178-8:D 4/2007 |
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