{"product_id":"9781421400303","title":"Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers,\" writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to \u003ci\u003eFaces of the Confederacy\u003c\/i\u003e. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers—young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor—who posed for photographic portraits, \u003ci\u003ecartes de visite\u003c\/i\u003e, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil War–era photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Civil War took the lives of 22 of every 100 men who served. Coddington follows the exhausted survivors as they return home to occupied cities and towns, ravaged farmlands, a destabilized economy, and a social order in the midst of upheaval. This book is a haunting and moving tribute to those brave men. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike its companion volume, \u003ci\u003eFaces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153192763632,"sku":"9781421400303","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781421400303_p0.jpg?v=1769898723","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781421400303","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}