My Heart is So Rebellious: The Caldwell Letters, 1861-1865
My Heart is So Rebellious is the story of the American Civil War, as seen primarily through the eyes of Susan Emeline Jeffords Caldwell, a wife and mother raising four children under difficult circumstances at best. Mrs. Caldwell was a resident of Warrenton, Virginia. Between 1861 and 1865, the town and its citizens would be witnesses to a war that turned Warrenton into hospital, cemetery, and disputed territory for North and South alike. The letters in this volume, written almost daily as the conflict unfolds, offer a candid, revealing, and unusual first-person account of the Civil War and its impact on the civilian population.
My Heart is So Rebellious is the story of the American Civil War, as seen primarily through the eyes of Susan Emeline Jeffords Caldwell, a wife and mother raising four children under difficult circumstances at best. Mrs. Caldwell was a resident of Warrenton, Virginia. Between 1861 and 1865, the town and its citizens would be witnesses to a war that turned Warrenton into hospital, cemetery, and disputed territory for North and South alike. The letters in this volume, written almost daily as the conflict unfolds, offer a candid, revealing, and unusual first-person account of the Civil War and its impact on the civilian population.
My Heart is So Rebellious is the story of the American Civil War, as seen primarily through the eyes of Susan Emeline Jeffords Caldwell, a wife and mother raising four children under difficult circumstances at best. Mrs. Caldwell was a resident of Warrenton, Virginia. Between 1861 and 1865, the town and its citizens would be witnesses to a war that turned Warrenton into hospital, cemetery, and disputed territory for North and South alike. The letters in this volume, written almost daily as the conflict unfolds, offer a candid, revealing, and unusual first-person account of the Civil War and its impact on the civilian population.