Life in Dixie During the War

Mary Ann Harris Gay

ISBN 10: 0865547238 / ISBN 13: 9780865547230

Edité par Mercer University Press, 2001

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Inventory ID 658049 Hardcover Cloth 442 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Fine. Mercer University Press Reprint edition 2001. Elegant light grey boards and gilt embossing spotlights this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear with undamaged corners. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover is smooth, clean and brilliant with no shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.First published in 1892 Life in Dixie During the War, ranks among the best first-person accounts of the American Civil War. Mary A. H. Gay eloquently recounts her wartime experiences in Georgia and bears witness to the suffering and struggle, defeat and despair, triumph and hope that is human history.Mary Gay was not only a chronicler, but an active participant in wartime activities; old veterans described her as unusually brave and fearless. While her book reads like a novel, it continues to be praised by modern scholars as an honest report of American history. It was a source used by Margaret Mitchell for Gone With the Wind.Mary Gay was a Georgia author of poetry and prose. Gay lived most of her life in Decatur in a house that is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After the war she was active in civic, club and church work.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Life in Dixie During the War
• Éditeur: Mercer University Press
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0865547238
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780865547230
• Reliure: Hard
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Life in Dixie During the War, first published in 1892, ranks among the best first-person accounts of the American Civil War. Mary A. H. Gay eloquently recounts her wartime experiences in Georgia and bears witness to the suffering and struggle, defeat and despair, triumph and hope that is human history. Mary Gay was not only a chronicler, but an active participant in wartime activities; old veterans described her as unusually brave and fearless. While her book reads like a novel, it continues to be praised by modern scholars as an honest report of American history.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The tocsin of war has resounded from Mason and Dixon’s line to the Gulf of Mexico, from the snow-crested billows of the Atlantic to the tranquil waves of the Pacific. War! War! War! is the battle cry of a people, who, long suffering and patient, but now, goaded to desperation and thoroughly exasperated, are determined, at all hazards, to protect the rights for which their forefathers fought, bled and died; and which their own Thomas Jefferson embodied in an instrument of writing which, for beauty of diction and wisdom of thought, will go sounding down the corridors of time, so long as time itself shall last—unequaled, unparalleled; and which was adopted without a dissenting voice by the ablest convocation of men ever assembled in national councils as their declaration of human rights and liberties. Thus, under auspices favorable to the happy and speedy development of a new and glorious country, commenced the government of the freest and happiest people on earth, under the administration of George Washington—an administration which caught the eye of the world and called forth its admiration; and which the most censorious never had the temerity to attack; an administration which secured for the country the alluring title, “The land of the free and the home of the brave.” And its fame went abroad in story and in song, and every nation on earth sought its blessings and advantages, and it grew to be a mighty country. Coeval with the settlement of this beautiful continent by the white man, there came, or rather, there was brought, a race of people which needed the fostering care as well as the strong arm of slavery to kindle the latent spark of intellectual fire which had smoldered for centuries, in, as President Cleveland would say, “innocuous desuetude.”