Journals of Thomas H. Hobbs
288 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:19 Aug 2003
ISBN:9780817312893
Journals of Thomas H. Hobbs
By Thomas Hubbard Hobbs; Edited by Faye A. Axford
University of Alabama Press
A valuable account of life in the South
Written between 1840, when the diarist was fourteen years old, and 1862, when he died serving the Confederate States of America.
Written between 1840, when the diarist was fourteen years old, and 1862, when he died serving the Confederate States of America.
[Hobbs’s] considerable descriptive abilities touch on clothing, manners, customs, modes of travel, religion, moments of happiness and of sadness, politics-the sum of life as he experienced it. The result is a valuable account of life in the South.’
—Civil War History
Faye Acton Axford (1925–2004). Author of To Lochaber Na Mair: Southerners View the Civil War.
