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Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunitiesā¦
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When this work first came out, it was the only wide-ranging study of childrenās lives during the American Civil War. Marten revealed how much there was to know about this topic, and how much there was to work withānot just material produced by adults for or about childrenāfrom picture books and board games to artwork and literatureābut also a wealth of letters, diaries, and newspapers written by children to document their wartime experiences. Marten, as either author or editor, subsequently followed up with numerous books that have expanded research in this area. But this one remains a favourite for itsā¦
From Frances' list on childhood in Civil War Era America.
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