Read For Free Faces Of The Confederacy: An Album Of Southern Soldiers And Their Stories Designed By Ronald S. Coddington Made Available In Paper Copy

to know the stories behind the images, I knew Dad would like this one:

simple, onepage bios of Confederate soldiers from all walks of life, accompanied by a photo of them.
"The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers," writes Ronald S, Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy, This book tells the stories of seventyseven Southern soldiersyoung farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poorwho posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war.
Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil Warera photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities.


The Civil War took the lives ofof everymen 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,

Like its companion volume, Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier.
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