The War Was You and Me (eBook)

Civilians in the American Civil War

Joan E. Cashin (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21811-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Co-Autor: William Blair, Joan E. Cashin, Robert C. Kenzer
• Zusatzinfo: 2 tables. 15 halftones.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abolition • abolitionism • African Americans • American Civil War • americans • Army of the Potomac • Belle Boyd • black people • Booth, John Wilkes • Border Regions • Border states (American Civil War) • Camp Chase • Career • Cavalry • Cemetery • Christmas • Classroom • Combatant • Confederate States Army • Conscription • correspondent • Criticism • Culture • culture of the united states • death: of civilians • Demography • despotism • Diary • Divided Family • doctorate • doctors • dower • Emancipation • Emancipation Proclamation • family life • Federal army • Fort Sumter • freedman • Gender Role • Generations • guerilla warfare • Harper's Weekly • hatred • His Family • home front: Northern • hostility • Household • Housewife • immigrants: in antebellum era • Impressment • infantry • Joseph Pulitzer • jubal early • kidnapping of free blacks • laborer • Lecture • Legislation • Literature • looting by armies • Lorenzo Thomas • marriage • Mary Surratt • Medical Care • Memoir • memory of the war • military history • Military Service • Missionary (LDS Church) • Mothers • Mrs. • My Country • napoleonic wars • narrative • Natchez district • national reconciliation • Neglect • newspaper • Old South • On the Eve • Origins of the American Civil War • Patriotism • Pension • Pensioner • Physician • Politician • Politics • poor folk • Prejudice • Princeton University Press • Prisoners of war • Prostitution • Racial Equality • Racism • Radical Republican • reconstruction • reconstruction era • Regiment • religion: and abolition • Remarriage • Secession • segregation: in postwar era • sewing • sibling • Slavery • Social History • Soundscape • Southern Claims Commission • Southern unionists • spouse • stonewall jackson • Testator • thanksgiving • The Other Hand • The Peculiar Institution • Thirteenth Amendment • Ulysses S. Grant • union army • United States Colored Troops • Upper Class • veterans • War Department (United Kingdom) • war effort • warfare • Weapon • white people • white southerners • Widows • William L. Clements Library • William Tecumseh Sherman • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21811-0 / 0691218110
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21811-3 / 9780691218113