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Uncle Seth Fought the Yankees

by James Ronald Kennedy

Stories of Southern children during the Civil War

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Stories of Southern children during the Civil War

Framed by the fictional Confederate veteran Uncle Seth, this collection gathers more than twenty short stories based on writings by Southerners who witnessed the Civil War. Its subject is the hardship and bravery of children in the South, presented through accounts drawn from journals, diaries, and other historical writings. The publisher’s description also makes clear that the book advances a strongly Confederate interpretation of the conflict, emphasizing defense of homes and family and contesting accounts it characterizes as Northern or propagandistic. That perspective is central to how the collection presents its historical material.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in the U.S. Civil War period
  • Readers seeking short, source-based stories about children’s experiences in the South
  • Readers interested in Confederate interpretations of Civil War history

Themes

Children and wartime hardshipHistorical memory and interpretationConfederate perspectives on the Civil WarHome and family during wartime

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Book overview

THE SUFFERING AND BRAVERY of the South's children during the War are an untold story. Yankee and scallywag historians have hidden and censored stories about the sufferings, hardships, and dedication of the South's children during the War for Southern Independence. But those stories remain for those who search old journals, diaries, and original history.

 

The author uses a fictitious Confederate veteran (Uncle Seth) to bring these almost lost stories to life. For the North, it was a war for the preservation of their empire. However, for the South, it was a struggle to protect their homes and family from the cruel invader's torch and an effort to prevent the chains of political slavery from being fastened on the South's people. The reader will find over twenty short stories all drawn from the writings of Southerners who witnessed the events. You will find history about the War unvarnished or whitewashed by Yankee propagandists masquerading as historians.

 

"Tell them [future generations] how we exhausted every honorable means to avoid the terrible arbitrament of war, asking only to be let alone, and tendering alliance, friendship, free navigation-everything reasonable and magnanimous-to obtain an amicable settlement. Tell them how, when driven to draw the sword, we fought the mercenaries of all the world until overpowered by tenfold numbers, we fell, like Leonidas and his Spartans of old, fell so heroically that our defeat was more glorious than their victory," -General R. E. Colston, CSA circa 1868

 

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