Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War

Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War

Letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore Families, 1853-1865

  • Autor: Craig, Tom Moore; Walker, Melissa A.
  • Editor: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781570037986
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611171105
  • eISBN Epub: 9781611171105
  • Lugar de publicación:  South Carolina , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2012
  • Mes: Junio
  • Idioma: Ingles

Civil War letters to and from Spartanburg, South Carolina, rich with details on the battlefront and home front

Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families of piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras through 124 letters dated 1853 to 1865. The letters provide valuable firsthand accounts of evolving attitudes toward the war as conveyed between battlefronts and the home front, and they also express rich details about daily life in both environments.

As the men of service age from each family join the Confederate ranks and write from military camps in Virginia and the Carolinas, they describe combat in some of the war's more significant battles. Though the surviving combatants remain staunch patriots to the Southern cause until the bitter end, in their letters readers witness the waning of initial enthusiasm in the face of the realities of combat. The corresponding letters from the home front offer a more pragmatic assessment of the period and its hardships. Emblematic of the fates of many Southern families, the experiences of these representative South Carolinians are dramatically illustrated in their letters from the eve of the Civil War through its conclusion.

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Family Genealogies
  • Pre–Civil War Letters
    • Letters, 1861
    • Letters, 1862
    • Letters, 1863
    • Letters, 1864
    • Letters, 1865
  • Appendixes
    • 1. Rules of Thalian Academy (Slabtown School), 1858
    • 2. Labor and Commodity Inventory of the Lands of Thomas John Moore, 1866
    • 3. Labor Contract with Former Slaves at Fredonia, 1866
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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