Love and Duty: Amelia and Josiah Gorgas and Their Family - Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk
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The intricate personal relationships of a notable Alabama family. "Sarah Wiggins's "Love and Duty is an important contribution to southern history. Splendid research in the scattered and extensive Gorgas papers allows Wiggins to blend Civil War, Reconstruction, family and gender analysis into a history of the 19th-century south. The Gorgases lived full and poignant lives before, during, and after 'the war.' Wiggins tells deftly how they lived, loved, parented, and coped with war and desolation and so presents social history at its comprehensive best." --Frank E. Vandiver, author of…mehr

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The intricate personal relationships of a notable Alabama family. "Sarah Wiggins's "Love and Duty is an important contribution to southern history. Splendid research in the scattered and extensive Gorgas papers allows Wiggins to blend Civil War, Reconstruction, family and gender analysis into a history of the 19th-century south. The Gorgases lived full and poignant lives before, during, and after 'the war.' Wiggins tells deftly how they lived, loved, parented, and coped with war and desolation and so presents social history at its comprehensive best." --Frank E. Vandiver, author of "Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance "There is more to this story than just history. This story of Amelia and Josiah in many ways is a manual about how to live your life and how to raise children. Today we hear much about 'family values, ' and this book illustrates the values of one 19th-century American, southern, and Alabama family."--Leah Rawls Atkins, editor of "a Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama "Dr. Wiggins's passionate insight into the lives of this couple yields an intimate, humanistic, and well-written volume. The book provides fresh material supported by excellent primary documentation. . . . Drawings from Josiah's sketchbook bring to light a wonderful relic of Alabama's material culture."--Daniel Fate Brooks, Director, Arlington House Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Alabama and author/editor of "The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881; "From Civil War to Civil Rights, Alabama 1860-1960: An Anthology from "The Alabama Review"; and "The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878..""
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Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Alabama and author/editor of The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881; From Civil War to Civil Rights, Alabama 1860-1960: An Anthology from "The Alabama Review"; and The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878.