The Last Generation
Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
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Author
Publication
2005-05-11 - The University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11294119M
- ISBN-139780807829486
- ISBN-10080782948X
- OCLC Control Number56686722
- Internet Archivelastgenerationyo0000carm
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004022034
- Goodreads930958
- LibraryThing1243207
Classifications
- LCCF235.A1C37 2005
Description
A look at the lives of more than 100 young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. By examining members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity.
First Sentence
AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE University of Virginia in, 1854, in his very first speech upon returning to his native King William County, William Roane Aylett proclaimed: The mighty winds which sweep by us on their way to distant lands tell us, at every blast and every whisper their moving principle is progress.
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