Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South Book

	Contributors	ix
	Introduction Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict during the Civil War	3
1.	Looking for Lost Kin: Efforts to Reunite Freed Families after Emancipation	15
2.	For Better or for Worse: Black Families and "the State" in Civil War Virginia	35
3.	In the Shadow of the Old Constitution: Black Civil War Veterans and the Persistence of Slave Marriage Customs	59
4.	"Of Necessity and Public Benefit": Southern Families and Their Appeals for Protection	77
5.	"High with Courage and Hope": The Middleton Family's Civil War	101
6.	"The White Wings of Eros": Courtship and Marriage in Confederate Richmond	119
7.	"Good Angels": Confederate Widowhood in Virginia	133
8.	"A Family of Women and Children": The Fains of East Tennessee during Wartime	155
9.	Power, Sex, and Gender Roles: The Transformation of an Alabama Planter Family during the Civil War	175
10.	Taking Up the Cross: Conversion among Black and White Jews in the Civil War South	193
11.	In the Far Corner of the Confederacy: A Question of Conscience for German-Speaking Texans	211
12.	Patriarchy in the World Where There Is No Parting?: Power Relations in the Confederate Heaven	229