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August 2, 2017

“Terrell offers an intriguing glimpse of an insular world.”

–Publishers Weekly

The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life Under Occupation in the Upper South

Edited by Minoa Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, and Phyllis Smith
University of Tennessee Press
208 pages
$29.95

“A useful volume to Civil War historians and women’s history scholars alike, The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy pulls back the curtain on upper-middle-class family life and social relations in a mid-sized Middle Tennessee town during the Civil War and reveals the slow demise of slavery during the Union occupation.”

~ the publisher

A Taste of Blood and Ashes