Civil War America : voices from the home front
A revealing compilation of essays documenting the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on Americans--young and old, black and white, northern and southern. The American Civil War was truly a "people's war," where neighbor fought neighbor and brother fought brother. Families and friends were as painfully divided as North and South. What impact did the bloodiest and mostly costly war in American history have on civilians and their assumptions about race, government, and freedom? Civil War America: Volces from the Home Front describes the myriad ways in which the Civil War affected both Northern and Southern civilians.; Through a unique collection of diary entries, memoirs, letters, and magazine articles, more than two dozen essays chronicle the personal experiences of soldiers and slaves, parents and children, nurses, veterans, and writers. Exploring such wide-ranging topics as Sanitary Fairs in the North, the "illustrated weeklies," children playing soldier, and the care of postwar orphans, most stories communicate some element of change, such as the destruction of old racial relationships, the challenge to Southern whites' complacency, and the expansion of government power. While some of the subjects are well-known-Edmund Ruffin, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Cabot Lodge, Booker T. Washington-most of the witnesses presented in these essays are relatively unknown men, women, and children who help to broaden our understanding of the war and its effects far beyond the home front
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1 online resource (xiii, 346 pages) : illustrations
9781851095025, 9781280711176, 9781576072370, 1851095020, 1280711175, 1576072371
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pt. 1. Southern civilians under siege. The last fire-eater : Edmund Ruffin
Times to try a woman's soul
A miserable, frightened life : Southern refugees
"A species of passionate insanity" : women of Vicksburg
Culture clash : invaders and rebels in the occupied South
A lukewarm people : home front dissenters in the Confederacy
"I ain't ashamed of nuthin" : Bill Arp explains the Confederate home front
pt. 2. Northern society at war. George Templeton Strong and the serious job of journalizing
Reporting the war : Civil War journalism in the North
Literary nurses : Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman
Thinking big : love and advice from Civil War fathers
A record of munificence : supporting the troops
"The bloody week" : the New York City draft riots
pt. 3. The children's Civil War. Rabid partisans among their playmates
What a difference a war makes
A Northern boy and a Southern girl
Playing soldier : Phip Flaxen and the watermelon war
Oliver Optic's Civil War : Northern children and the literary war for the Union
pt. 4. African Americans and the war. Havens and hellholes : challenges and opportunities in the contraband camps
Testing the boundaries : slave lives in the Confederacy
Free to learn : educating freedpeople
pt. 5. Aftermaths. "That such a thing could ever happen" : the death of a president
Out at the soldiers' home : Union veterans
Children of the battlefield : soldiers' orphans
Up from slavery : African Americans after the war
"True soldiers of the Southern cross" : Confederate women and the lost cause
The devil's Civil War : the stories of Ambrose Bierce
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