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Oh, how proud you stood before me In your suit of gray, When you vow’d to me and country Ne’er to go astray Weeping, sad and lonely, Sighs and tears how vain! When this cruel war is over, Pray then to meet again! Ashley Wilkes is stationed on the Rapidan River, Virginia, in the winter of ,[38]later captured and sent to a Union prison camp, Rock Island. They did not expect defeat. The first fighting in Georgia and the most significant Union defeat. The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign.

Union General Sherman suffers heavy losses to the entrenched Confederate army. Unable to pass through Kennesaw, Sherman swings his men around to the Chattahoochee River where the Confederate army is waiting on the opposite side of the river. The city would not fall until September 2, Heavy losses for Confederate General Hood. The city of Atlanta was abandoned by Hood and then occupied by Union troops for the rest of the war. Savannah Campaign, conducted around Georgia during November and December In the early years of the Civil War, Rhett is called a “scoundrel” for his “selfish gains” profiteering as a blockaderunner.

He is the “dark, mysterious, and slightly malevolent hero loose in the world”. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States the “Union” and formed the Confederate States of America the “Confederacy” , after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.

A dispute over states’ rights has arisen[48] involving African slaves that were the source of manual labor on cotton plantations throughout the South. The story opens in April at the “Tara” plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the O’Haras. The reader is told Scarlett O’Hara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Gerald and Ellen O’Hara, “was not beautiful, but”[49] had an effect on men, especially when she took notice of them.

It is the day before the men are called to war, Fort Sumter having been fired on two days earlier. There are brief but vivid descriptions of the South as it began and grew, with backgrounds of the main characters: the stylish and highbrow French, the gentlemanly English, the forced-to-flee and looked-down-upon Irish. Miss Scarlett learns that one of her many beaux, Ashley Wilkes, is soon to be engaged to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton.

She is stricken at heart. The following day at the Wilkeses’ barbecue at “Twelve Oaks,” Scarlett informs Ashley she loves him and Ashley admits he cares for her. Scarlett loses her temper at Ashley and he silently takes it. Then Scarlett meets Rhett Butler, a man who has a reputation as a rogue. Rhett had been alone in the library when Ashley and Scarlett entered, and felt it wiser to not make his presence known while the argument took place.

Rhett applauds Scarlett for the unladylike spirit she displayed with Ashley. Infuriated and humiliated, Scarlett tells Rhett, “You aren’t fit to wipe Ashley’s boots! Seeking revenge for being jilted by Ashley, Scarlett accepts a proposal of marriage from Melanie’s brother, Charles Hamilton.

They marry two weeks later. Charles dies from measles two months after the war begins. Scarlett is pregnant with her first child. A widow at merely sixteen, she gives birth to a boy, Wade Hampton Hamilton, named after his father’s general. Scarlett is despondent as a result of the restrictions placed upon her. Melanie, who is living in Atlanta with Aunt Pittypat, invites Scarlett to live with them. In Atlanta, Scarlett’s spirits revive and she is busy with hospital work and sewing circles for the Confederate army.

Scarlett encounters Rhett Butler again at a dance for the Confederacy. Although Rhett believes the war is a lost cause, he is blockade running for the profit in it. The men must bid for a dance with a lady and Rhett bids “one hundred fifty dollars-in gold”[37] for a dance with Scarlett. Everyone at the dance is shocked that Rhett would bid for Scarlett, the widow still dressed in black.

Melanie smooths things over by coming to Rhett’s defense because he is generously supporting the Confederate cause for which her husband, Ashley, is fighting. At Christmas , Ashley has been granted a furlough from the army and returns to Atlanta to be with Melanie.

The war is going badly for the Confederacy. Atlanta is under siege September , “hemmed in on three sides,”[51] it descends into a desperate state while hundreds of wounded Confederate soldiers lie dying or dead in the city. Melanie goes into labor with only the inexperienced Scarlett to assist, as all the doctors are busy attending the soldiers.

Prissy, a young Negro servant girl, cries out in despair and fear, “De Yankees is comin! Melanie gives birth to a boy named Beauregard, and now they must hurry for refuge. Scarlett tells Prissy to go find Rhett, but she is afraid to “go runnin’ roun’ in de dahk”. Scarlett replies to Prissy, “Haven’t you any gumption?

Rhett laughs at the idea, but steals an emaciated horse and a small wagon, and they follow the retreating army out of Atlanta. Part way to Tara, Rhett has a change of heart and he abandons Scarlett to enlist in the army. Scarlett makes her way to Tara without him where she is welcomed on the steps by her father, Gerald.

It is clear things have drastically changed: Gerald has lost his mind, Scarlett’s mother is dead, her sisters are sick with typhoid fever, the field slaves left after Emancipation, the Yankees have burned all the cotton and there is no food in the house.

The long tiring struggle for post-war survival begins that has Scarlett working in the fields. There are so many hungry people to feed and so little food.

There is the ever present threat of the Yankees who steal and burn, and at one point, Scarlett kills a Yankee marauder with a single shot from Charles’s pistol leaving “a bloody pit where the nose had been.

Life at Tara slowly begins to recover when a new threat appears in the form of new taxes on Tara. Scarlett knows only one man who has enough money to help her pay the taxes, Rhett Butler. She goes to Atlanta to find him only to learn Rhett is in jail.

As she is leaving the jailhouse, Scarlett runs into Frank Kennedy, who is betrothed to Scarlett’s sister, Suellen, and running a store in Atlanta. Soon realizing Frank also has money, Scarlett hatches a plot and tells Frank that Suellen has changed her mind about marrying him. Thereafter Frank succumbs to Scarlett’s feminine charms and he marries her two weeks later knowing he has done “something romantic and exciting for the first time in his life.

While Frank has a cold and is being pampered by Aunt Pittypat, Scarlett goes over the accounts at Frank’s store and finds many of his friends owe him money. Scarlett is now terrified about the taxes and decides money, a lot of it, is needed. She takes control of his business while he is away and her business practices leave many Atlantans resentful of her.

Then with a loan from Rhett she buys a sawmill and runs the lumber business herself, all very unladylike conduct.

Much to Frank’s relief, Scarlett learns she is pregnant, which curtails her activities for awhile. She convinces Ashley to come to Atlanta and manage the mill, all the while still in love with him. At Melanie’s urging, Ashley takes the job at the mill. Melanie soon becomes the center of Atlanta society, and Scarlett gives birth to a girl named Ella Lorena.

For protection, Scarlett keeps Frank’s pistol tucked in the upholstery of the buggy. Her trips alone to and from the mill take her past a shanty town where criminal elements live. On one evening when she is coming home from the mill, Scarlett is accosted by two men who attempt to rob her, but she escapes with the help of Big Sam, the former negro foreman from Tara. Attempting to avenge the assault on his wife, Frank and the Ku Klux Klan raid the shanty town whereupon Frank is shot dead.

Scarlett is a widow for a second time. Rhett puts on a charade to keep the men who participated in the shanty town raid from being arrested.

He walks into the Wilkeses’ home with Hugh Elsing and Ashley, singing and pretending to be drunk. Yankee officers outside the home question Rhett and he tells them he and the other men had been at Belle Watling’s brothel that evening, a story Belle later confirms to the officers.

The men are indebted to Rhett for saving them, and his Scallawag reputation among them improves a notch, but the men’s wives, with the exception of Melanie, are livid at owing their husbands’ lives to Belle Watling.

Frank Kennedy lies cold in a coffin in the quiet stillness of the parlor in Aunt Pittypat’s home. Scarlett is in a remorseful state. She is swigging brandy from Aunt Pitty’s swoon bottle when Rhett comes to call. She tells Rhett tearfully, “I’m afraid I’ll die and go to hell,” to which Rhett replies, “Maybe there isn’t a hell. However, Rhett kisses her passionately, and in the heat of the moment she agrees to marry him. One year later, Scarlett and Rhett announce their engagement.

News of the impending marriage is the talk of the town. Butler honeymoon in New Orleans, spending lavishly. Upon their return to Atlanta, the couple take up residence in the bridal suite at the National Hotel while their new home on Peachtree Street is being constructed.

Scarlett chooses a modern Swiss chalet style home like the one she saw in Harper’s Weekly, and red wallpaper, thick red carpet and black walnut furniture for the interior. Rhett describes the house as an “architectural horror”. Scarlett wonders why Rhett married her. Then “with real hate in her eyes”[56] she tells Rhett she is going to have a baby, a baby she does not want. Then here’s to our Confederacy, strong we are and brave, Like patriots of old we’ll fight, our heritage to save; And rather than submit to shame, to die we would prefer, So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.

For Southern rights, hurrah! Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star. When Scarlett is feeling well again, she makes a trip to the mill and talks to Ashley, who is alone in the office. In the conversation with him, she comes away believing Ashley still loves her and is jealous of her intimate relations with Rhett, which excites her.

Scarlett returns home and tells Rhett she does not want more children. From then on, Scarlett and Rhett sleep in separate bedrooms, and when Bonnie is two years old, she sleeps in a little bed beside Rhett’s bed with the light on all night long because she is afraid of the dark.

Rhett turns his attention towards Bonnie, dotes on her, spoils her, and worries about her reputation when she is older. Melanie is giving a surprise birthday party for Ashley. Scarlett goes to the mill to keep Ashley there until party time, a rare opportunity for Scarlett to see Ashley alone.

When she sees him, she feels “sixteen again, a little breathless and excited. Suddenly Scarlett’s eyes fill with tears and Ashley holds her head against his chest. Then in the doorway of the office Ashley sees standing his sister, India Wilkes.

Before the party has even begun rumors of an adulterous relationship between Ashley and Scarlett have started, and Rhett and Melanie have heard the gossip. Melanie refuses to accept any criticism of her sister in-law and India Wilkes is banished from the Wilkeses’ home for it, causing a rift in the family. Rhett, more drunk than Scarlett has ever seen him, returns home the evening of the party long after Scarlett. His eyes are bloodshot and his mood is dark and violent.

He enjoins Scarlett to drink with him. Not wanting Rhett to know she is fearful of him, Scarlett throws back a drink and gets up from her chair to go back to her bedroom.

But Rhett stops her and pins her shoulders to the wall. Scarlett tells Rhett he is jealous of Ashley and Rhett accuses Scarlett of “crying for the moon”[58] over Ashley.

He tells Scarlett they could have been happy together saying, “for I loved you and I know you. The following morning Rhett leaves town with Bonnie and Prissy and stays away for three months. Scarlett finds herself missing him, but she is still unsure if Rhett loves her, having told her so when he was drunk. She learns she is pregnant with her fourth child.

On the day Rhett arrives home, Scarlett waits for him at the top of the stairs. She wonders if Rhett will kiss her, but to Scarlett’s irritation, he does not. He tells her she looks pale. Scarlett tells him she is pale because she is pregnant. Rhett sarcastically asks her if the father is Ashley. She calls Rhett a cad and tells him no woman would want a baby of his. To which Rhett responds, “cheer up, maybe you’ll have a miscarriage. She is seriously ill for the first time in her life, having lost her child and broken her ribs.

Rhett is remorseful, believing he has killed her. Sobbing and drunk, Rhett buries his head in Melanie’s lap and confesses he had been a jealous cad. Scarlett, who is thin and pale, goes to Tara taking Wade and Ella with her, to regain her strength and vitality from “the green cotton fields of home. She finds Rhett’s attitude has noticeably changed. He is sober, kinder, polite and seemingly disinterested.

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Most reports are processed within a few days of submission. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in November , Margaret munnerlyn Mitchell belonged to a wealthy and a politically prominent family. She spent her early childhood on Jackson Hill, East of downtown Atlanta, and grew up in southern culture. Encouraged by her husband, she began writing the novel that would become gone with the wind.

Set against the backdrop of the Civil War in America, this book poignantly portrays how political circumstances influence human relationships.

It is more than just the fervent and mysterious love between Scarlett and Rhett the book also Delicately depicts various facets of life during the Civil War.

Courage, egoism and other aspects are beautifully and Truthfully described in this enthralling classic tale. Available to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. Or read online. Skip straight to downloads. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was first published in Synonymous with the film of the same name starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, the book earned the author a Pulitzer prize in