The War Was You and Me Civilians in the American Civil War / Joan E. Cashin, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cashin, Joan E., Author.

Contributor:

Cashin, Joan E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilians in war--United States.

Social conditions.

Social aspects.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

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

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

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

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

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. 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.

Contents:

Of bells, booms, sounds, and silences : listening to the Civil War South / Mark M. Smith

A 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

The 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

An 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-09174-9

OCLC:

1193126879