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| | | Alabama Roots Biography Series | Home » » » » Emma Sansom: Confederate heroine (Alabama roots biography series) | | | | | | | Description: | | ALABAMA ROOTS-A Biography Series
Published by Seacoast Publishing, Inc.
Alabama Roots is a book series designed to provide reading pleasure for young people (ages 12-15), to allow readers to better know the men and women who shaped the State of Alabama, and to fill a much needed void of quality regional non-fiction for students in middle grades.
For years, teachers and librarians have searched for quality biographies about famous people from Alabama. This series is a response to that search. The series (40+ titles) will cover a span of time from pre-statehood through the modern day.
The goal of Alabama Roots is to provide biographies that are historically accurate and as interesting as the characters whose lives they explore.
Emma Sansom was a Confederate Heroine. A quot from her reads: "I was no longer afraid, even though my heart was pounding and the noise from the cannonballs was deafening...I took off my sunbonnet and waved it in defiance at the Yankees." | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Margie Dover Ross | | Paperback:
| 104 pages | | Publisher:
| Seacoast Pub | | Publication Date:
| 2001 | | ISBN:
| 1878561839 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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Reviewing "Emma Sansom"Sep 18, 2009
By John W. Berry
"Military history buff"
Emma Sansom was truly a folk heroine in my home town of Gadsden, Alabama when I was growing up. Monuments, a school named for her, a very recognizable name locally.
As an adopted Texan, I recently sought out and visited her final resting place in a small cemetery in Upshur County, Texas, about 100 miles east of Dallas.
When I saw the book advertised on the internet I ordered copies for my home library. I found that the book was probably intended as a supplemental history book for
junior high school students rather than a more serious historical work. The facts are there, but the author's recreation and dramatization of conversations from 140
years ago made it more of a "Tom Sawyer" type adventure story. I did enjoy the book, however, and would recommend it to students of 1860's history.
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