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Journey to the Wilderness : War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters.

Gaillard, Frye. (Author). Trout, Steven. (Added Author).

Summary:

Annotation On the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the war -- and the way we remember it -- through letters written by his family, including his great-great grandfather and his two sons, both of whom were Confederate officers. As Gaillard explains in his introductory essay, he came of age in a Southern generation that viewed the war as a glorious lost cause. But as he read through letters collected by members of his family, he confronted a far more sobering truth. "Oh, this terrible war," wrote his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Gaillard. "Who can measure the troubles -- the affliction -- it has brought upon us all?" To this real-time anguish in voices from the past, Gaillard offers a personal remembrance of the shadow of war and its place in the haunted identity of the South. "My own generation," he writes, "was, perhaps, the last that was raised on stories of gallantry and courage ... Oddly, mine was also the one of the first generations to view the Civil War through the lens of civil rights -- to see ... connections and flaws in Southern history that earlier generations couldn't bear to face."

Record details

ISBN: 1603063617
ISBN: 9781603063616
Physical Description: 1 online resource (90 pages)
Publisher: Montgomery : NewSouth Books, 2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Intro -- Title Page -- Also by Frye Gaillard -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part I -- War and Memory -- Prologue -- 1 -- Stories and Questions -- 2 -- Letters and Guns -- 3 -- News from the Front -- 4 -- The Wilderness -- 5 -- Layers of Memory -- Part II -- Voices of War -- The Letters -- Richebourg Gaillard, January 7, 1844 -- Franklin Gaillard, April 25, 1861 -- Thomas Gaillard, May 24, 1861 -- Augusta Evans Wilson, late spring, 1861 -- Franklin Gaillard, August 4, 1861 -- Franklin Gaillard, October 27, 1861 -- Franklin Gaillard, December 31, 1861 -- Thomas Gaillard, April, 1862 -- Richebourg Gaillard, April 20, 1862 -- Franklin Gaillard, April 20, 1862 -- Franklin Gaillard, October 14, 1862 -- Richebourg Gaillard, December 16, 1862 -- Thomas Palmer Gaillard, December 16, 1862 -- Franklin Gaillard, April 5, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, June 11, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, June 28, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, July 17, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, August 12, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, September 6, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, October 5, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, November 10, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, December 18, 1863 -- Franklin Gaillard, February 27, 1864 -- Lydia Gaillard Alderson, late spring 1864 -- Marianne Gaillard Willison, late spring 1864 -- Franklin Gaillard, February 29, 1864 -- Franklin Gaillard, March 18, 1864 -- W.P. DuBose, June 17, 1864 -- Richebourg Gaillard, September 9, 1866 -- Samuel Palmer Gaillard, March 26, 1956 -- For Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.