The war was you and me : civilians in the American Civil War / Joan E. Cashin, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cashin, Joan E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States.

History.

Social aspects.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Social conditions.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

Physical Description:

viii, 397 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]

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. These original essays -- all commissioned from established scholars, based on archival research, and written for a wide readership -- 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.

Contents:

Part 1 The South

1. Of Bells, Booms, Sounds, and Silences: Listening to the Civil War South / Mark M. Smith 9

2. A Compound of Wonderful Potency: Women Teachers of the North in the Civil War South / Nina Silber 35

3. Slaves, Emancipation, and the Powers of War: Views from the Natchez District of Mississippi / Anthony E. Kaye 60

4. Hearth, Home, and Family in the Fredericksburg Campaign / George C. Rable 85

5. The Uncertainty of Life: A Profile of Virginia's Civil War Widows / Robert Kenzer 112

6. Race, Memory, and Masculinity: Black Veterans Recall the Civil War / W. Fitzhugh Brundage 136

Part 2 The North

7. An Inspiration to Work: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Public Orator / J. Matthew Gallman 159

8. We Are Coming, Father Abraham

Eventually: The Problem of Northern Nationalism in the Pennsylvania Recruiting Drives of 1862 / William Blair 183

9. Living on the Fault Line: African American Civilians and the Gettysburg Campaign / Margaret S. Creighton 209

10. Cannonballs and Books: Reading and the Disruption of Social Ties on the New England Home Front / Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray 237

11. Deserters, Civilians, and Draft Resistance in the North / Joan E. Cashin 262

12. Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln / Elizabeth D. Leonard 286

Part 3 The Border Regions

13. On the Border: White Children and the Politics of War in Maryland / Peter W. Bardaglio 313

14. Duty, Country, Race, and Party: The Evans Family of Ohio / Joseph T. Glatthaar 332

15. Union Father, Rebel Son: Families and the Question of Civil War Loyalty / Amy E. Murrell 358.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691091730

0691091749

OCLC:

47785571

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