CSPAN3 The Civil War Dreams Of Civil War Americans February 11, 2018
Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our s...