New Perspectives on the Union War / / ed. by Elizabeth R. Varon, Gary W. Gallagher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Caires, Michael T.,; Caires, Michael,; Cirillo, Frank J.,; Cirillo, Frank,; Dilbeck, D. H.,; Dilbeck, D.H.,; Furniss, Jack,; Gallagher, Gary W.,; George-Nichol, Jesse,; Kurtz, William B.,; Luebke, Peter C.,; Luebke, Peter,; Nunley, Tamika Y.,; Nunley, Tamika,; Varon, Elizabeth R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gallagher, Gary W.,; Varon, Elizabeth R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: The North's Civil War
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8

Edited by Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon, two of the most prominent nineteenth-century American historians in the nation, New Perspectives on the Union War provides a more nuanced understanding of what “Union” meant in the Civil War North by exploring how various groups of northerners conceived...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Waiting for the perfect moment: Abby Kelley foster and Stephen foster’s union war
• Elizabeth Keckly’s union war
• To save the union “in behalf of conservative men”: Horatio Seymour and the democratic vision for war
• The union as it was: northern Catholics’ conservative unionism
• “Certain ill-considered phrases”: Edward bates and the disunionist dangers of radical rhetoric
• “Responsible to one another and to god”: why Francis Lieber believed the union war must remain a just war
• Building a union of banks: Salmon p. chase and the creation of the national banking system
• “To transmit and perpetuate the fruits of this victory”: Union regimental histories and the great rebellion in immediate retrospect
• Notes
• Bibliographical note
• Contributors
• Index