{"product_id":"the-war-hits-home-the-civil-war-in-southeastern-virginia-nation-divided","title":"The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia (Nation Divided)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet  while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies  threatened the Union garrison in Suffolk. For the residents of surrounding Nansemond  Isle of Wight  and Southampton Counties  the Suffolk campaign followed an exhausting and deadly pattern. Already subjected to the demands of waves of soldiers  first Southern recruits and then Union occupation troops  the people of the region faced the severest tests the Civil War could impose upon human beings.  In The War Hits Home  Brian Steel Wills tells the story of these real people in the crucible of war. Reconstructing life for soldiers from the region on the battlefield and for civilians in the homes of southeastern Virginia  Wills provides a full depiction of what life was like for the ordinary person--black  white  soldier  citizen  Unionist  or secessionist--contending with domestic  economic  social  and military hardship in the contest of sectionalism and war. Wills employs their individual experiences to illustrate the impact of the war on a human scale  on soldiers and their relatives  North and South. We witness battlefield horror and family despair  African Americans embrace of freedom  and the persistence of Confederate nationalism among most whites in the region. Taken as a whole  The War Hits Home is a sweeping but extraordinarily detailed canvas of a fractured American South.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955460206645,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813920272","price":90.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813920276.jpg?v=1770308470","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-war-hits-home-the-civil-war-in-southeastern-virginia-nation-divided","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}