The War Was You and Me
Civilians in the American Civil War
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2020
416 pages
978-0-691-21811-3 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
Illustrations
2 tables. 15 halftones.
2 tables. 15 halftones.
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978-0-691-21811-3 (9780691218113)
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Joan E. Cashin is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. She is the author of A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier and the editor of Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South.
Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Editor's Acknowledgments
- Editor's Introduction
- Part One - The South
- 1. Of Bells, Booms, Sounds, and Silences: Listening to the Civil War South
- 2. A Compound of Wonderful Potency: Women Teachers of the North in the Civil War South
- 3. Slaves, Emancipation, and the Powers of War: Views from the Natchez District of Mississippi
- 4. Hearth, Home, and Family in the Fredericksburg Campaign
- 5. The Uncertainty of Life: A Profile of Virginia's Civil War Widows
- 6. Race, Memory, and Masculinity: Black Veterans Recall the Civil War
- Part Two - The North
- 7. An Inspiration to Work: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Public Orator
- 8. We Are Coming, Father Abraham - Eventually: The Problem of Northern Nationalism in the Pennsylvania Recruiting Drives of 1862
- 9. Living on the Fault Line: African American Civilians and the Gettysburg Campaign
- 10. Cannonballs and Books: Reading and the Disruption of Social Ties on the New England Home Front
- 11. Deserters, Civilians, and Draft Resistance in the North
- 12. Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln
- Part Three - The Border Regions
- 13. On the Border: White Children and the Politics of War in Maryland
- 14. Duty, Country, Race, and Party: The Evans Family of Ohio
- 15. Union Father, Rebel Son: Families and the Question of Civil War Loyalty
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Illustrations
