Civil War Citizens : : Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict / / ed. by Susannah J. Ural.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Engle, Stephen D.,; Evans, William McKee,; Gleeson, David T.,; Mehrländer, Andrea,; Reidy, Joseph P.,; Rosen, Robert N.,; Ural, Susannah J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ural, Susannah J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews, Germans, the Irish, and Native Americans--also...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Yankee Dutchmen
• 2. “With More Freedom and Independence Than the Yankees”
• 3. “Ye Sons of Green Erin Assemble”
• 4. Irish Rebels, Southern Rebels
• 5. The Jewish Confederates
• 6. Native Americans in the Civil War
• 7. The African American Struggle for Citizenship Rights in the Northern United States during the Civil War
• About the Contributors
• Index