Tara Revisited1995

Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend examines the daily life of Confederate women and finds it considerably grimmer than the version of it supplied by myth-makers nostalgic for a past that never was. Clinton's last pages offer a penetrating summary of the reasons for the myth's durable appeal. - New Yorker, on cover flap.

This captivating volume cuts through romantic myth, combining period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of Southern women during the Civil War. Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine Clinton provides a vivid social and cultural history of the diverse communities of Southern women during the Civil War: the heroic African-American women who struggled...