{"product_id":"haunted-by-memory-ghost-stories-of-the-american-civil-war-paperback-softback-9798895270899","title":"Haunted by Memory; Ghost Stories of the American Civil War (Paperback \/ softback) 9798895270899","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHaunted by Memory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGhost Stories of the American Civil War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmy Laurel Fluker (Edited by), John R. Neff (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9798895270899\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 May 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e413 pages, 49 illustrations - 27 photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Editors John R. Neff and Amy Laurel Fluker have expertly selected, introduced, and annotated one of the most novel collections of Civil War era documents to appear in generations. Quarrying the period's popular press for Civil War ghost stories written by veterans, minor literary figures, and newspaper editors, they recover vitally important yet heretofore overlooked texts of Civil War memory. Imaginative and thought-provoking—brought to fruition by one of the field's very best young historians—this superb collection is a worthy tribute to John Neff's marvelous but much too short career.\"—Brian Matthew Jordan, author of \u003ci\u003eMarching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Every story is in its way an epitaph—a message from the dead or future departed. In \u003ci\u003eHaunted By Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, John R. Neff and Amy Laurel Fluker assemble nineteenth- and early twentieth-century 'headstones' into a marvelous graveyard of narrative and invite us to summon spirits. The result is a rich repository of memory as past hauntings of national trauma emerge into the reader's present and compel us to listen.\"—Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"By turns fascinating, illuminating, and sad, \u003ci\u003eHaunted by Memory \u003c\/i\u003emakes a compelling case for taking ghosts seriously. Whether ghosts exist or not, ghost stories remain a cultural map to our unfinished business and our collective trauma. As ghost tours become a forty-billion-dollar industry, rich collections like this one resurrect the aspects of our past that won't stay buried. \u003ci\u003eHaunted by Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential read for those who seek to explore all that lurks in the shadows of the Civil War Era.\"—Stephen Berry, author of \u003ci\u003eCount the Dead: Quantification and the Birth of Death as We Know It\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs America's bloodiest conflict, it is no surprise that the Civil War gave rise to a golden age of ghost stories. Popular publications were filled with accounts of ghosts—ghosts that appeared in the heat of battle, in the fretful quiet of picket duty, and in the miserable confines of hospitals and prisons. Civil War ghosts continued to haunt the troubled peace that followed, revealing that even so deadly a conflict left unresolved issues in its wake. In a nation forever altered by the war, these ghost stories speak to something far more meaningful than Americans' taste for spine-tingling entertainment. They provide powerful evidence of how they tried to put the trauma, grief, and anxieties inflicted by the Civil War to rest. By telling ghost stories, Americans created narratives that honored the dead, explained the unexplainable, and gave their experiences a broader sense of identity and purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this annotated anthology of Civil War ghost stories, historians John R. Neff and Amy Laurel Fluker offer the first scholarly analysis of the significance of ghosts to the history and memory of the Civil War. \u003ci\u003eHaunted by Memory\u003c\/i\u003e includes hundreds of examples of ghostly tales that appeared in newspapers, periodicals, and books between 1861 and 1932. These tales both satisfied and fed popular demand for news, entertainment, and ghostlore, and became powerful tools of cultural memory. By bridging the study of the Civil War, folklore, and memory, this collection expands the parameters of cultural history and reveals how the supernatural became a lasting part of the commemorative landscape of the American Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653067763992,"sku":"9798895270899","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/haunted-by-memory-ghost-stories-of-the-american-civil-war-paperback-softback-9798895270899","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}