The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship by Henry M. Mckive Jr. HARDBACK

The Consequences of Confederate CitizenshipThe Civil War Correspondence of Alabama's Pickens Family\nAuthor(s): Henry M. McKiven, Jr., T. Michael Parrish\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807183670, 978-0807183670\nSynopsis\nThe Consequences of Confederate Citizenship is a vast collection of Civil War correspondence from the affluent Pickens family of Greene County, Alabama. Unlike nearly all published letter collections from the era, the Pickens family correspondence includes letters written on the home front as well as those penned by family members serving in the Army of Northern Virginia. The correspondence provides rare insight into the mutual dependence of family on the home front and kin at war to sustain morale and foster the formation of Confederate national identity. \n Expertly edited, annotated, and contextualized by Henry McKiven Jr., the correspondence between Mary Gaill.