Warriors into workers : the Civil War and the formation of urban-industrial society in a northern city / / Russell L. Johnson.

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Year of Publication:2003
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:North's Civil War, no. 24
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Physical Description:xii, 388 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • The key city : Dubuque before the Civil War
  • "Volunteer while you may" : mobilization for the war
  • Independent soldiers and soldier-sons : the social origins of enlistees
  • "The boys all stood to the work manfully" : the army as an industrial workplace
  • Ten thousand men in shebangs : the army as an urban working-class environment
  • "A duty of the hour" : the home front in Dubuque
  • The Civil War generation : military service and social mobility
  • Conclusion : Hawkeyes in blue.