{"product_id":"an-east-texas-familys-civil-john-t-whatley-9780807170694","title":"An East Texas Family's Civil War: The Letters of Nancy and William Whatley, May-December 1862","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAn East Texas Family's Civil War, \u003c\/i\u003e the Whatleys' great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy's letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John T. Whatley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807170690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807170694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 8.80w x 0.90d","brand":"John T. Whatley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947254579455,"sku":"9780807170694","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f3a6d4e8-9a39-498a-aa81-f8e53f03e99d.jpg?v=1681517628","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-east-texas-familys-civil-john-t-whatley-9780807170694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}