The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080782948X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A revealing and stunning read" according to Robert Busko. Like most readers of history, the significant figures of the Civil War have taken on almost mythic proportions. Some times they seem almost to be gods stepped down from Mt. Olympus. In The Last Generation, Peter Carmichael manages to shed new light onto the lives, interests, and beliefs of many of the young Virginians that were so caught up in the cause of the day and in the process makes them human once more.I found The Last Generation to be full of information that is newat least to me. I've done my share of reading about the major characters involved in the Civil War, on both . "Eminently readable and quite fascinating" according to The Reviewer Formerly Known as Kurt Johnson. In this fascinating book, author and historian Professor Peter S. Carmichael takes a generational look a particular group of American men who fought in the Civil War, selecting 121 men who had been born in Virginia between 18Eminently readable and quite fascinating In this fascinating book, author and historian Professor Peter S. Carmichael takes a generational look a particular group of American men who fought in the Civil War, selecting 121 men who had been born in Virginia between 1830 and 18Eminently readable and quite fascinating The Reviewer Formerly Known as Kurt Johnson In this fascinating book, author and historian Professor Peter S. Carmichael takes a generational look a particular group of American men who fought in the Civil War, selecting 121 men who had been born in Virginia between 1830 and 1842. These men were mostly highly educated, from the slave holding class, and formed the junior officer core of the Virginia military units. These men were part of the last generation to grow up in Virginia with slavery, and the story of their journey of life is one little studied, until now.As a fan of the works of Messrs Strauss and Howe (“Gen. 2. These men were mostly highly educated, from the slave holding class, and formed the junior officer core of the Virginia military units. These men were part of the last generation to grow up in Virginia with slavery, and the story of their journey of life is one little studied, until now.As a fan of the works of Messrs Strauss and Howe (“Gen. 0 and 18Eminently readable and quite fascinating The Reviewer Formerly Known as Kurt Johnson In this fascinating book, author and historian Professor Peter S. Carmichael takes a generational look a particular group of American men who fought in the Civil War, selecting 121 men who had been born in Virginia between 1830 and 1842. These men were mostly highly educated, from the slave holding class, and formed the junior officer core of the Virginia military units. These men were part of the last generation to grow up in Virginia with slavery, and the story of their journey of life is one little studied, until now.As a fan of the works of Messrs Strauss and Howe (“Gen. 2. These men were mostly highly educated, from the slave holding class, and formed the junior officer core of the Virginia military units. These men were part of the last generation to grow up in Virginia with slavery, and the story of their journey of life is one little studied, until now.As a fan of the works of Messrs Strauss and Howe (“Gen. It's OK Thomas P. Myers Decent collateral reading but not an essential book. I often found myself thinking, "get on with it!"I would have liked to know more about this sample, probably in appendix. Who was in it? What was their family background? The 1850 and 1860 census would provide useful data about family wealth and position of child in family. How is the sample among colleges balanced?
By examining the lives of members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds new light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity during the turbulent last half of the nineteenth century.. They vigorously lobbied for disunion despite opposition from their elders, then served as officers in the Army of Northern Virginia as frontline negotiators with the nonslaveholding rank and file. Age, he concludes, created special concerns for young men who spent their formative years in the 1850s.Before the Civil War, these young men thought long and hard about Virginia's place as a progressive slave society. After the war, however, they quickly s
Full of new insights.--Register of Kentucky Historical SocietyPeter S. His work will stand as a compelling description of the motivations and mentalities of the men who clamored loudest for Virginia's entry into the war, and then labored hardest to pull it out of the wreckage.--Civil War TimesA careful examination. By stressing the economically based generational component of the Old Dominion's late antebellum political culture, Carmichael has added a new dimension to an old discussion.--Southern Quarterly. An engaging and original study. This well-written and sensitively