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Title Wars within a war : controversy and conflict over the American Civil War / edited by Joan Waugh & Gary W. Gallagher.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 292 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Joan Waugh & Gary W. Gallagher -- Women numerous and armed : gender and the politics of subsistence in the Civil War south / Stephanie McCurry -- Friend or foe : Treason and the second confiscation act / William Blair -- My enemies are crushed : McClellan and Lincoln / James M. McPherson -- Profile in leadership : Generalship and resistance in Robert E. Lee's first month in command of the army of Northern Virginia / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- In your hands that musket means liberty : African American soldiers and the battle of Olustee / J. Matthew Gallman -- With malice toward both : Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in caricature / Harold Holzer -- Walt Whitman's real wars / Stephen Cushman -- Hollywood has it both ways : the rise, fall, and reappearance of the lost cause in American film / Gary W. Gallagher -- Battle over the bodies : burying and reburying the Civil War dead, 1865-1871 / Drew Gilpin Faust -- Not a veteran in the poorhouse : Civil War pension and soldiers' homes / James Marten -- William T. Sherman in postwar Georgia's collective memory, 1864-1914 / Carol Reardon -- Nation's greatest hero should rest in the nation's greatest city / Joan Waugh.
Summary Comprised of essays from 12 leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
Social conflict -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social conflict.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Social conflict -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Southern States.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term To 1865
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
Chronological Term 1865-1918
Subject Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
War and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
War and society.
War and society -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
Chronological Term To 1918
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Waugh, Joan.
Gallagher, Gary W.
Other Form: Print version: Wars within a war. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832752 (DLC) 2008050487 (OCoLC)261174165
ISBN 9780807898444 (electronic book)
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