Anya Jabour . Topsy‐Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children . Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2010. Pp. vi, 263. $28.95.
2011; Oxford University Press; Volume: 116; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/ahr.116.4.1136
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)American Constitutional Law and Politics
ResumoIn this book Anya Jabour focuses on how the Civil War turned the world of southern children upside down, highlighting the distinctiveness and diversity in their lives regardless of color, gender, class, and legal status. These children were eye‐witnesses to more war‐related incidents, including deaths, than northern children since the majority of battles were fought in the South. Jabour begins her monograph with the recollections of Ernest Wardwell, a schoolboy in Baltimore, who saw Union soldiers moving toward Washington, D. C., and the “awful melee” they created. In fact, Wardwell joined a mob and chased the soldiers like “howling wolves.” By contrast, the slave‐born Susie King Taylor gravitated toward Union lines to see the “wonderful” soldiers. Still other children had different views of soldiers. Following the Battle of Fredericksburg, Sue Chancellor, daughter of a Virginia planter, saw Union soldiers use the family parlor as an operating room with the piano...
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