Documenting Arkansas: The Civil War 1861-1865
Department
History
Files
Description
This book reflects our belief that the complex story of Arkansas in wartime is best told as close to experientially as one can come at this remove. After Gettysburg, Lincoln famously observed that the nation had only begun "fourscore and seven years" before. As this book is printed, we stand sevenscore and nine years, or seven and a half generations, away from that day. That war does not still live in human memory. But it does still live in the scenes recorded and the documents created in the midst of wartime. Turning these pages transports one back to a bygone era and a society changed forever by something northerners did not experience -- loss of a wager hazarded on the iron dice of war.
ISBN
9780983557913
Publication Date
2012
Document Type
Book
Publisher
Arkansas History Commission
City
Little Rock, AR
Publisher Statement
Copyright 2012 Arkansas History Commission
Keywords
Arkansas, Civil War
Disciplines
Public History
Recommended Citation
Richter, Wendy Bradley; Crawford, Julienne; and Pfeifler, Anna, "Documenting Arkansas: The Civil War 1861-1865" (2012). Books and Monographs. 37.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/mono/37