The Unarmed Witness: 30 Accounts of Civil War Behind the Lines: Civilian Diaries, Nursing Memoirs, and Home-Front Testimony from the American Civil War
by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Susie King Taylor, Adam Gurowski, William E. Barton, William Howard Russell, Sarah H. Bradford, Thomas E. Taylor, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Susan R. Jervey, Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, Myrta Lockett Avary, Henry Martyn Kieffer, Mary Ann Loughborough, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Eliza Frances Andrews, John Beauchamp Jones, Mary Ann Harris Gay, Parthenia Antoinette Hague, C. T. Quintard, Maud E. Morrow, Phoebe Yates Pember, S. Emma E. Edmonds, Mary Boykin Chesnut, George Barton, Fannie A. Beers, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, Tillie Pierce Alleman
Thirty firsthand accounts from civilians, nurses, and soldiers reveal daily life and hardship behind the lines during the American Civil War.
About This Book
This volume gathers thirty firsthand accounts from civilians, nurses, and soldiers who experienced the Civil War behind the lines.
Contributors include Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Susie King Taylor, and many others who recorded their observations and daily realities.
The narratives cover hospital work, domestic life, and the social upheaval caused by the conflict across both Union and Confederate regions.
Readers gain insight into the personal impact of war on ordinary people through these contemporary voices.
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