Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front : : Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments / / Paul Cimbala, Randall Miller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Cimbala, Paul,; Miller, Randall,
• MitwirkendeR: Bennett, Michael J.,; Cecere, David A.,; Cimbala, Paul A.,; Clarke, Frances,; Glatthaar, Joseph T.,; Gordon, Lesley J.,; Hess, Earl J.,; Johnson, Russell L.,; McClintock, Megan J.,; Miller, Randall M.,; Mulderink, Earl F.,; Raney, David A.,; Reardon, Carol,; Richard, Patricia L.,; Shaffer, Donald R.,; Shoaf, Dana B.,; Snell, Mark A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The North's Civil War
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (508 p.)

Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments explores the North's Civil War in ways that brings fresh perspectives to our knowledge of the way soldiers and civilians interacted in the Civil War North. Northerners rarely confronted the hardships their southern counterparts faced, but they still found the war a challenging event that to varying degrees would re-shape and transform their old comfortable assumptions about their lives. Having given up their sons to save the Union, they craved information and followed the progress of the companies and regiments that they had sent off to fight. At the same time, their soldier boys never fully severed their ties with home, even as the rigors of war made them rougher versions of their old selves. The home front and the front lines remained intimately connected. This book expands our understanding of those connections.The authors of the essays in this volume bring new and different approaches to some familiar topics while offering answers to some questions that other scholars have ignored for too long. They explore such varied experiences as recruitment, soldiers' motivation, civilian access to the combat experience, wartime correspondence, benevolence and organized relief, race relations, definitions of freedom and citizenship, and ways civilians interacted with soldiers who sojourned in their communities. It is important that they do not stop with the end of the fighting, but also explore such postwar problems as the reintegration of soldiers into northern life and the claims to public memory, including those made by African Americans. Taken as a whole, the essays in Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front provide a better understanding of the larger scope and depth of wartime events experienced by both civilians and soldiers and of the ways those events nurtured the enduring connections between those who fought and those who remained at home. In that regard, the essays go to the very heart of the Civil War experience.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Filling the Ranks -- l. "We Are All in This War": The 148th Pennsylvania and Home Front Dissension in Centre County during the Civil War -- 2. "Volunteer While You May": Manpower Mobilization in Dubuque, Iowa -- 3. "If They Would Know What I Know It Would Be Pretty Hard to Raise One Company in York": Recruiting, the Draft, and Society's Response in York County, Pennsylvania, 1861-1865 -- 2. Northerners and Their Men in Arms -- 4. "Tell Me What the Sensations Are": The Northern Home Front Learns about Combat -- 5. "Listen Ladies One and All": Union Soldiers Yearn for the Society of Their "Fair Cousins of the North" -- 6. Soldiering on the Home Front: The Veteran Reserve Corps and the Northern People -- 7. Saving Jack: Religion, Benevolent Organizations, and Union Sailors during the Civil War -- 8. In the Lord's Army: The United States Christian Commission, Soldiers, and the Union War Eff -- 9. Carrying the Home Front to War: Soldiers, Race, and New England Culture during the Civil War -- 3. From War to Peace -- 10. "Surely They Remember Me": The 16th Connecticut in War, Captivity, and Public Memory -- 11. "Honorable Scars": Norther:p Amputees and the Meaning of Civil War Injuries -- 12. The Impact of the Civil War on Nineteenth-Century Marriages -- 13. A Different Civil War: African American Veterans in New Bedford, Massachusetts -- 14. "I Would Rather Shake Hands with the Blackest Nigger in the Land": Northern Black Civil War Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic -- 15. "For Every Man Who Wore the Blue": The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and the Charges of Elitism after the Civil War -- AFTERWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX