Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children

by Anya Jabour and Anya Jabour University of Montana

Book Overview

"Oh Such cannonading on all sides, such shrieks and groans, such commotion of all kinds " wrote the teenaged Sue Chancellor, a Virginia planter's daughter, in May 1863. "We thought that we were frightened before, but this was far beyond everything. . . . Oh, the horror of that day "

Sue's reactions to the Civil War around her was only one of myriad responses to the conflict from children--boys or girls, black or white, slave or free, rich...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566636329
• ISBN13: 9781566636322
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"