War’s Cost: The Hite’s Civil War

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Focusing on the grandsons of Major Isaac Hite, founder of Belle Grove (and brother-in-law of James Madison, author of both the Bill of Rights and the Constitution), Bétit analyzes the motivating factors that led those even of pre-military age to enlist, using a new tool, Ancestry.com for new data.

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Despite an extraordinary number of Civil War studies, scholars continue to mine new resources to understand how Americans could engage in such vicious combat for four long years. Focusing on the grandsons of Major Isaac Hite, founder of Belle Grove (and brother-in-law of James Madison, author of both the Bill of Rights and the Constitution), Bétit analyzes the motivating factors that led those even of pre-military age to enlist, using a new tool, Ancestry.com for new data. The book examines Southern education, slavery, the First Families of Virginia, and the settlement and development of the Shenandoah Valley as well as the Civil War to understand the intense combat in that critical theater of operations.

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Weight 24 kg
Dimensions 8 × 5 × 1 cm

2 reviews for War’s Cost: The Hite’s Civil War

  1. Gene Betit

    Excellent!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016
    Thomas Carlyle once observed, “history is the essence of innumerable biography.” Eugene Betit’s first book offers a great reminder to all about the value of individual stories. Those stories, as Carlyle believed, help us build a deeper connection to the past. Through the eyes of the Hite Family, Betit’s book offers tremendous insight into how families responded to the American Civil War and why all members of the Hite family who were of military age (40 in total) enlisted to fight for the Confederacy. In addition to gaining a glimpse into the lives of these young men Betit’s finely crafted and cogent volume, tugs at the heartstrings as he recounts the stories of some members of the Hite family, such as George Smith Hite who enlisted in the 19th Virginia Infantry at the tender age of fourteen and did not live to see fifteen—having succumbed to wounds received at the Battle of Gaines’ Mill in 1862. Beyond the fascinating glimpses Betit offers, this study provides insight into the broader history of the Civil War era in Virginia, and specifically the Shenandoah Valley. Betit’s fine book is a worthwhile addition to anyone interested in the lives of Confederate soldiers, the conflict in the Old Dominion, or who desires to gain a deeper understanding of how our American Iliad deeply impacted families, not only during the conflict but years after the guns fell silent.

    Jonathan Alex Noyalas, Shenandoah University History Department, Director, Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute

  2. Gene Betit

    Despite an extraordinary number of Civil War studies, scholars continue to mine new resources to understand how Americans could sustain such vicious combat for four long years. Focusing on the grandsons of Major Isaac Hite, founder of Belle Grove (and brother-in-law of James Madison, author of both the Bill of Rights and the Constitution), Bétit analyzes the motivating factors that led those even of pre-military age to enlist, using a relatively new tool, Ancestry.com, to obtain new data. The book examines Southern education, slavery, the First Families of Virginia and the settlement and development of the Shenandoah Valley to understand the intense combat in that critical theater of operations.

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