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Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War is the tenth volume in a series that intends to use photographs to tell the story of the individuals and societies engaged in the country’s great national conflict.As in previous volumes ,the layout involves the use of photographs of individuals accompanied by captions that provide their personal stories. The photographs and individual accounts are then woven into a narrative intended to illuminate the history of a people at war. The series, from its beginning, had a specific purpose—an emphasis upon the individual’s experience of war. The first volume made its authors aware that behind the larger stories of war are the thousands of individuals who lived through or died as a result. The series makes no pretense at providing a comprehensive history of the war in each state covered, but we do hope that it brings home the human aspect of this conflict. With this volume the series turns to the history of Alabama and its people.Alabama presents a special case in that until the war’s end, the state saw little fighting inside its boundaries. Nevertheless, over one hundred thousand Alabamians served with Confederate units throughout the South, fighting in most of its great battles. This volume chronicles the lives and experiences of some of these citizen-soldiers.At the same time,it covers life on the home front, where the absence of these men forced major changes in the daily endeavors of those left behind.The book ultimately addresses the conduct of the war when it finally came to Alabama itself in raids by Union forces and the fight for Mobile Bay. The reader will find in Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the CivilWar a large number of previously unpublished photographs, showing the men and women of the state. Its gripping narrative provides one of the few overviews of Civil War Alabama available. This volume contains the same qualities of photography and story that have attracted readers to the previous volumes in the series. The editors hope that it meets the same approval from readers as well. CARL MONEYHON AND BOBBY ROBERTS General Editors xi Foreword ...

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