Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Les Enfants de la Guerre  1. Children as a Factor in War Strategy 兩 5 2. Boy Soldiers and Their Families 兩 14 3. Childrearing 兩 30 4. ‘‘Spilt Milk’’: Three Family Cameos 兩 42 5. Education and Nation Building 兩 50 6. ‘‘Something for the Girls’’: Marriage Customs and Girlhood 兩 65 7. ‘‘Going Up the Spout’’: Converging Defeat on the Battlefield and Home Front 兩 75 8. Baptism by Fire 兩 92 9. Widows and Orphans 兩 102 10. Reconstruction and Redemption: The Civil War, Part II 兩 108 11. The Last Phoenix: Conflicting Legacies, 1890–2007 兩 123 Appendix A: Methodology  Appendix B: Conscription  Notes  Bibliography  Index  Illustrations following page  ...