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Rebel Richmond

Life and Death in the Confederate Capital

by Stephen V. Ash
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In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in the months that followed. The city's population exploded, its economy was deranged, and its government and citizenry clashed desperately over resources to meet daily needs while a mighty enemy army laid siege. Journalists, officials, and everyday residents recorded these events in great detail, and the Confederacy's foes and friends watched closely from across the continent and around the world.
In Rebel Richmond, Stephen V. Ash vividly evokes life in Richmond as war consumed the Confederate capital. He guides readers from the city's alleys, homes, and shops to its churches, factories, and halls of power, uncovering the intimate daily drama of a city transformed and ultimately destroyed by war. Drawing on the stories and experiences of civilians and soldiers, slaves and masters, refugees and prisoners, merchants and laborers, preachers and prostitutes, the sick and the wounded, Ash delivers a captivating new narrative of the Civil War's impact on a city and its people.

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    Civil War America

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  • Release date

    October 14, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781469651002

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      • ISBN: 9781469651002

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      • ISBN: 9781469651002
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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2019

      Ash (history, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; A Massacre in Memphis) fits his deeply researched, revealing, and compelling title into the recent trend of books on a people's history of the Civil War. Without eschewing larger questions of war management and military engagements, the author focuses on the many and varied people who lived in, came to, or escaped from Richmond during the war years: a mix of soldiers, refugees, prisoners, profiteers, government employees, enslaved and free blacks, and others. Ash tracks the experiences of work, life, military and public service, religion, and more, in rendering how the most basic needs of food, water, shelter, companionship, and purpose were affected by the circumstances and demands of living in the Confederate capital as the war drew closer and took an ever more exacting toll. By focusing on the lives of people, Ash emphasizes that the war was a constant strain on resources, physical and mental health, human relationships, and the meaning of duty to one's "country," family, and self. VERDICT This book will set the standard for other much-needed intensive, up-close examinations of what the Civil War meant on the ground.--Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia

      Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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