It takes the average reader 11 hours and 14 minutes to read Blood and War at my Doorstep by Brenda Chambers McKean
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Continuing from Volume I, Volume II intersperses numerous soldiers’ letters with those from home. The issue of slavery from both the owners and individuals is brought forth. Did colored men really serve as Confederate soldiers? Did free black men? Union soldiers described southern women as defi ant, beautiful, crude, and pitiful. Read of women aboard blockade-runners, the fall of Wilmington, Sherman’s march, Stoneman’s western raiders, and the end of the war. Did any civilians die due to these raids? Did they idly sit by as their lives and homes were destroyed? The war did come to their doorstep during the second half of the confl ict. Both Volume I and II tell something from each of the state’s 87 counties. Perhaps you may fi nd information about your ancestor among these pages. Information from period newspapers, as well as mostly unpublished letters, tell their stories.
Blood and War at my Doorstep by Brenda Chambers McKean is 664 pages long, and a total of 168,656 words.
This makes it 224% the length of the average book. It also has 206% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 21 minutes to read Blood and War at my Doorstep aloud.
Blood and War at my Doorstep is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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