The Unarmed Witness: 30 Accounts of Civil War Behind the Lines
Civilian Diaries, Nursing Memoirs, and Home-Front Testimony from the American Civil WarBy Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, 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, Susie King Taylor, 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
Length317h 13m
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The Unarmed Witness: 30 Accounts of Civil War Behind the Lines gathers a compelling polyphony of civilian, medical, journalistic, and literary testimony from the American Civil War. Diaries, memoirs, letters, reportage, and retrospective narratives illuminate the war's domestic theatres: hospitals, occupied towns, refugee routes, households, prisons, and makeshift relief networks. Moving between Union and Confederate settings, the volume foregrounds the often-overlooked labor of care, endurance, observation, and survival, while preserving vivid accounts of battlefield aftermath, political uncertainty, and social fracture. Its contributors include celebrated writers, nurses, soldiers, foreign observers, freedpeople, and women whose private records became essential historical documents. Their varied positions reveal how gender, race, class, region, and allegiance shaped wartime experience. Together, these voices belong to the rich tradition of Civil War life writing, challenging conventional military histories by locating conflict within intimate spaces and everyday moral choices. The collection also demonstrates how recollection and testimony helped construct competing memories of the nation's defining crisis. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers alike, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with the Civil War beyond the front lines. Its juxtaposed perspectives invite careful comparison, deepen historical empathy, and foster a productive dialogue between literary form and lived experience.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length317 hrs 13 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1American against American - 20 Gripping Civil War Memoirs & Diaries
26MARCH, 1861
2The Unarmed Witness: 30 Accounts of Civil War Behind the Lines
27APRIL, 1861
3My Memoirs of the Civil War
28MAY, 1861
4Biography of Louisa May Alcott
29JUNE, 1861
5CHAPTER I. GENEALOGY AND PARENTAGE.
30JULY, 1861
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6CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD.
31AUGUST, 1861
7CHAPTER III. FRUITLANDS.
32SEPTEMBER, 1861
8CHAPTER IV. THE SENTIMENTAL PERIOD.
33OCTOBER, 1861
9CHAPTER V. AUTHORSHIP.
34NOVEMBER, 1861
10CHAPTER VI. THE YEAR OF GOOD LUCK.
35DECEMBER, 1861
11CHAPTER VII. HOSPITAL SKETCHES.
36JANUARY, 1862
12CHAPTER VIII. EUROPE AND LITTLE WOMEN.
37FEBRUARY, 1862
13CHAPTER IX. EUROPE.
38MARCH, 1862
14CHAPTER X. FAMILY CHANGES.
39APRIL, 1862
15CHAPTER XI. LAST YEARS.
40MAY, 1862
16CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION.
41JUNE, 1862
17Civil War Memoirs – The Hospital Sketches
42JULY, 1862
18CHAPTER I OBTAINING SUPPLIES.
43AUGUST, 1862
19CHAPTER II A FORWARD MOVEMENT.
44SEPTEMBER, 1862
20CHAPTER III A DAY.
45OCTOBER, 1862
21CHAPTER IV A NIGHT.
46NOVEMBER, 1862
22CHAPTER V OFF DUTY.
47NOVEMBER, 1862
23CHAPTER VI A POSTSCRIPT.
48DECEMBER, 1862
24The Diary of Adam Gurowski: March 4, 1861 - October 18, 1863
49JANUARY, 1863
25PREFACE
50FEBRUARY, 1863
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