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Rebel Richmond life and death in the Confederate capital

Title
Rebel Richmond [electronic resource] : life and death in the Confederate capital / Stephen V. Ash.
Author
Ash, Stephen V.
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description
1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations.
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"--
Series Statement
Civil War America
Uniform Title
  • Rebel Richmond (Online)
  • Civil War America (Series)
Alternative Title
Rebel Richmond (Online)
Subject
  • Richmond (Va.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Richmond (Va.) > Social conditions > 19th century
  • Richmond (Va.) > Economic conditions > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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.
LCCN
2019004289
OCLC
ssj0002192200
Author
Ash, Stephen V.
Title
Rebel Richmond [electronic resource] : life and death in the Confederate capital / Stephen V. Ash.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series
Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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