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The War Was You and Me
Joan E. Cashin
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Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
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. That experience was inherently dramatic. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social and economic institutions, including, of course, 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--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. 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.
In addition to the editor, the contributors are Peter W. Bardaglio, William Blair, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Margaret S. Creighton, J. Matthew Gallman, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Anthony E. Kaye, Robert Kenzer, Elizabeth D. Leonard, Amy E. Murrell, George C. Rable, Nina Silber, Mark M. Smith, Mary Saracino Zboray, and Ronald J. Zboray. Together they describe the profound transformations in community relations, gender roles, race relations, and culture wrought by the central event in American history.
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American Civil War, Freedman, Literature, Infantry, Abolitionism, Racial equality, Memoir, The Other Hand, Confederate States Army, His Family, Year, Politics, Career, Weapon, Soundscape, Reconstruction Era, War effort, Patriotism, Military service, Culture of the United States, Impressment, Regiment, Writing, Narrative, Pensioner, Hatred, Missionary (LDS Church), Physician, White people, Racism, Prejudice, Politician, Lecture, Old South, Poor Folk, Union Army, Laborer, Household, Sewing, Divided family, Black people, Princeton University Press, African Americans, Pension, Newspaper, Sibling, Marriage, Gender role, Fort Sumter, Mrs., Mary Surratt, Cemetery, Harper's Weekly, Federal Army, Remarriage, Housewife, Correspondent, Doctorate, Military history, Stonewall Jackson, Natchez District, Americans, Criticism, Conscription, Emancipation Proclamation, Radical Republican, Border states (American Civil War), Origins of the American Civil War, William L. Clements Library, Slavery