The War Was You and Me : : Civilians in the American Civil War /

The War Was You and Me : : Civilians in the American Civil War / / Joan E. Cashin.

Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War. That experience was inherently dramatic. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Cashin, Joan E.,
MitwirkendeR:
Bardaglio, Peter W.,
Blair, William,
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh,
Cashin, Joan E.,
Creighton, Margaret S.,
Gallman, J. Matthew,
Glatthaar, Joseph T.,
Kaye, Anthony E.,
Kenzer, Robert,
Leonard, Elizabeth D.,
Murrell, Amy E.,
Rable, George C.,
Silber, Nina,
Smith, Mark M.,
Zboray, Mary Saracino,
Zboray, Ronald J.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2003
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 2 tables. 15 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Editor's Acknowledgments
  • Editor's Introduction
  • PART ONE. The South
  • 1. Of Bells, Booms, Sounds, and Silences: Listening to the Civil War South
  • 2. A Compound of Wonderful Potency: Women Teachers of the North in the Civil War South
  • 3. Slaves, Emancipation, and the Powers of War: Views from the Natchez District of Mississippi
  • 4. Hearth, Home, and Family in the Fredericksburg Campaign
  • 5. The Uncertainty of Life: A Profile of Virginia's Civil War Widows
  • 6. Race, Memory, and Masculinity: Black Veterans Recall the Civil War
  • PART TWO. The North
  • 7. An Inspiration to Work: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Public Orator
  • 8. We Are Coming, Father Abraham - Eventually: The Problem of Northern Nationalism in the Pennsylvania Recruiting Drives of 1862
  • 9. Living on the Fault Line: African American Civilians and the Gettysburg Campaign
  • 10. Cannonballs and Books: Reading and the Disruption of Social Ties on the New England Home Front
  • 11. Deserters, Civilians, and Draft Resistance in the North
  • 12. Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln
  • PART THREE. The Border Regions
  • 13. On the Border: White Children and the Politics of War in Maryland
  • 14. Duty, Country, Race, and Party: The Evans Family of Ohio
  • 15. Union Father, Rebel Son: Families and the Question of Civil War Loyalty
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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