The Civil War Prose and Poesy of the Southern Home Front

What were Southerners reading on the Home Front during the Civil War? As a break from the news of the day, they read the wide variety editors included in newspapers and magazines-songs, speeches, poems, appeals, announcements, jokes, essays, diary entries, travelogues and even novelettes. You will find samples of all of these in this text-with subjects ranging from the courageous soldiers and their enduring faith to more fun topics such as young love, a farmer's corn crop and many more. Anyone from a private individual who wrote a poem to honor a loved one to acclaimed authors of poems and prose found sources for publication, giving birth to writings that are uniquely Southern.