Contents

• Looking for lost kin: efforts to reunite freed families after emancipation / Michael P. Johnson.
• For better or for worse: black civil war veterans and the persistence of slave marriage customs / Donald R. Shaffer.
• "Of necessity and public benefit" : southern families and their appeals for protection / Amy E. Murrell.
• "High with courage and hope": the Middleton family’s Civil War / Judith Lee Hunt.
• "The white wings of Eros" : courtship and marriage in confederate Richmond / E. Susan Barber.
• "Good angels": confederate widowhood in Virginia / Jennifer Lynn Gross.
• "A family of women and children": the fains of East Tennessee during wartime / Daniel W. Stowell.
• Power, sex, and gender roles: the transformation of an Alabama planter family during the Civil War South / Henry Walker.
• Taking up the cross : conversion among black and white Jews in the Civil War South / Lauren F. Winner.
• In the far corner of the confederacy : a question of conscience for German-speaking Texans / Anne J. Bailey.
• Patriarchy in the world where there in no parting? : Power relations in the confederate heaven / Ted Ownby