Abstract
University of Virginia Press, 2009 * xiv, 242 pp. * $39.50 Despite their willingness to explore every nuance of Civil War soldiers' wartime experiences, historians have devoted scant attention to examining veterans' lives during Reconstruction and its aftermath. Drawing carefully on established scholarship, he finds that former Confederate soldiers renegotiated "what it meant to be married" with their spouses, built or reestablished paternal authority over their children, and attempted to provide economically amid "wartime debts, postwar chaos, droughts, and emancipation" of slaves (pp. 50, 59).