Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Megan Kate Nelson

Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

Megan Kate Nelson

400 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, m...

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