A Generation at War : The Civil War Era in a Northern Community / Nicole Etcheson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Etcheson, Nicole, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2023.

Summary:

Examines how the Civil War impacted specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Offers a deeply-researched microhistory of one such community-Putnam County, Indiana-from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction, and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledments

Introduce: The Murder of Martha Mullinix

Part 1: Before the War

1. A Northern Party

2. Appropriate Places

3. The Excluded Race

Part 2. The War

4. The Copperheads

5. Their Own Corner

6. Shoulder-Strapped Negroes

Part 3: After the War

7. Radicals and Conservatives

8. Pensioners

9. Exodusters

Conclusion: The Monument Builder

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

0-7006-3516-5