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Uncle Dock and the Civil War

Uncle Dock and the Civil War Truman Fields Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 1, Winter 2001, pp. 27-28 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0045 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435901/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:14 GMT from JHU Libraries Uncle Dock and the Civil War Truman Fields The Civil War was especially bad in my community, and it was horrible for my family. My father and grandfather would never talk of the war. They would quickly change the subject when it came up. The entire family treated the Civil War the same way. My curiosity got the best of me and I asked my father to tell me what the Fields family did in the War Between the States. He still wouldn't talk about it, and neither would any other family members. This was a big mystery to me. Why was it so important to keep the war a total secret? Finally, just before my eighty-year-old grandmother died, she said the time was right for me to learn what she had witnessed as a seven-year-old child. We walked down to the bottomland near the barn and creek bed. Grandmother Fields softly cried as she held my hand http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Uncle Dock and the Civil War

Appalachian Review , Volume 29 (1) – Jan 8, 2014

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Abstract

Truman Fields Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 1, Winter 2001, pp. 27-28 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0045 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435901/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:14 GMT from JHU Libraries Uncle Dock and the Civil War Truman Fields The Civil War was especially bad in my community, and it was horrible for my family. My father and grandfather would never talk of the war. They would quickly change the subject when it came up. The entire family treated the Civil War the same way. My curiosity got the best of me and I asked my father to tell me what the Fields family did in the War Between the States. He still wouldn't talk about it, and neither would any other family members. This was a big mystery to me. Why was it so important to keep the war a total secret? Finally, just before my eighty-year-old grandmother died, she said the time was right for me to learn what she had witnessed as a seven-year-old child. We walked down to the bottomland near the barn and creek bed. Grandmother Fields softly cried as she held my hand

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2014

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