Civil War America (Series)

Richmond, Virginia: Thursday, 11 April 1861 -- Rebel patriots -- City of strangers -- Housing the multitudes -- Feeding the multitudes -- Working -- Dissent and despair -- Disorder, crime, and sin -- White supremacy and black resistance -- White society and its discontents -- Longing, suffering, and death -- 1-10 April 1865

"Drawing on rich, previously untapped sources, Stephen V. Ash tells an absorbing tale of the city's diverse inhabitants. Civilians and soldiers, slaves and masters, refugees and prisoners, clerks and factory workers, preachers and prostitutes, patriots and draft-dodgers, the sick and the wounded--all endured a deluge of calamities such as no other American city has ever known"--