| Description |
viii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Of bells, booms, sounds, and silences : listening to the civil war south / Mark M. Smith -- Compound of wonderful potency : women teachers of the north in the civil war south / Nina Silber -- Slaves, emancipation, and the powers of war : views from the Natchez district of Mississippi / Anthony E. Kaye -- Hearth, home, and family in the Fredericksburg campaign / George C. Rable -- Uncertainty of life : a profile of Virginia's civil war widows / Robert Kenzer -- Race, memory, and masculinity: black veterans recall the civil war / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Inspiration to work : Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, public orator / J. Matthew Gallman -- We are coming, father Abraham, eventually : the problem of northern nationalism in the Pennsylvania recruiting drives of 1862 / William Blair -- Living on the fault line : African American civilians and the Gettysburg campaign / Margaret S. Creighton -- Cannonballs and books : reading and the disruption of social ties on the New England home front / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- Deserters, civilians, and draft resistance in the north / Joan E. Cashin -- Mary Surratt and the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln / Elizabeth D. Leonard -- On the border : white children and the politics of war in Maryland / Peter W. Bardaglio -- Duty, country, race, and party: the Evans family of Ohio / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Union father, rebel son : families and the question of civil war loyalty / Amy E. Murrell. |
| Summary |
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. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social and economic institutions, including slavery. Northerners witnessed the reorganization of society to fight the war. And citizens of the border regions grappled with elemental questions of loyalty that reached into the family itself. These original essays recover the stories of civilians from Natchez to New England. They address the experiences of men, women, and children of whites, slaves, and free blacks and of civilians from numerous classes. Not least of these stories are the on-the-ground experiences of slaves seeking emancipation and the actions of white Northerners who resisted the draft. Many of the authors present brand new material, such as the war's effect on the sounds of daily life and on reading culture. Others examine the war's premiere events, including the battle of Gettysburg and the Lincoln assassination, from fresh perspectives. Several consider the passionate debate that broke out over how to remember the war, a debate that has persisted into our own time. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1865 |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
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| Added Author |
Cashin, Joan E.
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| ISBN |
0691091730 |
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9780691091730 |
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0691091749 alkaline paper |
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9780691091747 alkaline paper |
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