Civil War America

, by Marten, James Alan

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ISBN: 9781576072370 | 1576072371
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/1/2003

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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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: ``A People's War''

Part I Southern Civilians under Siege

The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin

(14)

Times to Try a Woman's Soul

(10)

A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees

(14)

``A Species of Passionate Insanity'': Women of Vicksburg

(12)

Culture Clash: Invaders and Rebels in the Occupied South

(12)

A Lukewarm People: Home Front Dissenters in the Confederacy

(10)

``I Ain't Ashamed of Nuthin'': Bill Arp Explains the Confederate Home Front

(12)

Part II Northern Society at War

George Templeton Strong and the Serious Job of Journalizing

(12)

Reporting the War: Civil War Journalism in the North

(14)

Literary Nurses: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman

113

(12)

Thinking Big: Love and Advice from Civil War Fathers

125

(10)

A Record of Munificence: Supporting the Troops

135

(12)

``The Bloody Week'': The New York City Draft Riots

147

(14)

Part III The Children's Civil War

Rabid Partisans among Their Playmates

161

(10)

What a Difference a War Makes: A Northern Boy and a Southern Girl

171

(10)

Playing Soldier: Phip Flaxen and the Watermelon War

181

(12)

Oliver Optic's Civil War: Northern Children and the Literary War for the Union

193

(16)

Part IV African Americans and the War

Havens and Hellholes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contraband Camps

209

(14)

Testing the Boundaries: Slave Lives in the Confederacy

223

(12)

Free to Learn: Educating Freedpeople

235

(18)

Part V Aftermaths

``That Such a Thing Could Ever Happen'': The Death of a President

253

(14)

Out at the Soldiers' Home: Union Veterans

267

(12)

Children of the Battlefield: Soldiers' Orphans

279

(12)

Up from Slavery: African Americans after the War

291

(12)

``True Soldiers of the Southern Cross'': Confederate Women and the Lost Cause

303

(14)

The Devil's Civil War: The Stories of Ambrose Bierce

317

(12)

Bibliographical Essay

329

(6)

Index

335

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Civil War America

Summary

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