| Portraits of Conflict: Tennessee: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War Contributor(s): McCaslin, Richard B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557288313 ISBN-13: 9781557288318 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2007 Annotation: Awards for the Portraits of Conflict Series Volumes Include: - Chicago Book Clinic Design Award - American Association of University Presses Design Award - Arkansiana Award, Arkansas Library Association - Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History - Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - Pictorial - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 973.730 |
| LCCN: 2006036513 |
| Series: Portraits of Conflict (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 8.68" W x 10.98" (3.88 lbs) 430 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It's one thing to understand that over twenty-thousand Confederate and Union soldiers died at the Battle of Murfreesboro. It's quite another to study an ambrotype portrait of twenty-year-old private Frank B. Crosthwait, dressed in his Sunday best, looking somberly at the camera. In a tragically short time, he'll be found on the battlefield, mortally wounded, still clutching the knotted pieces of handkerchief he used in a hopeless attempt to stop the bleeding from his injuries. Private Crosthwait's image is one of more than 250 portraits--many never before published--to be found in the much anticipated Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War. The eighth in the distinguished Portraits of Conflict series, this volume joins the personal and the public to provide a uniquely rich portrayal of Tennesseans--in uniforms both blue and gray--who fought and lost their lives in the Civil War. Here is the story of a widow working as a Union spy to support herself and her children. Of a father emerging from his house to find his Confederate soldier son dying at his feet. Of a nine-year-old boy who attached himself to a Union regiment after his mother died. Their stories and faces, joined with personal remembrances from recovered letters and diaries and ample historical information on secession, famous battles, surrender, and Reconstruction, make this new Portraits of Conflict a Civil War treasure. |