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Civil War America : Voices from the Home Front / James Marten.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The North's Civil WarPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 57 Illustrations, black and whiteContent type:
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  • 9780823227945
  • 9780823291199
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: “A People’s War” -- PART I Southern Civilians under Siege -- Chapter One. The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin -- Chapter Two. Times to Try a Woman’s Soul -- Chapter Three. A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees -- Chapter Four “A Species of Passionate Insanity”: Women of Vicksburg -- Chapter Five. Culture Clash: Invaders and Rebels in the Occupied South -- Chapter Six. A Lukewarm People: Home Front Dissenters in the Confederacy -- Chapter Seven “I Ain’t Ashamed of Nuthin”: Bill Arp Explains the Confederate Home Front -- PART II Northern Society at War -- Chapter Eight. George Templeton Strong and the Serious Job of Journalizing -- Chapter Nine. Reporting the War: Civil War Journalism in the North -- Chapter Ten. Literary Nurses: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman -- Chapter Eleven. Thinking Big: Love and Advice from Civil War Fathers -- Chapter Twelve. A Record of Munificence: Supporting the Troops -- Chapter Thirteen “The Bloody Week”: The New York City Draft Riots -- PART III The Children’s Civil War -- Chapter Fourteen. Rabid Partisans among Their Playmates -- Chapter Fifteen. What a Difference a War Makes: A Northern Boy and a Southern Girl -- Chapter Sixteen. Playing Soldier: Phip Flaxen and the Watermelon War -- Chapter Seventeen. Oliver Optic’s Civil War: Northern Children and the Literary War for the Union -- PART IV African Americans and the War -- Chapter Eighteen. Havens and Hellholes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contraband Camps -- Chapter Nineteen. Testing the Boundaries: Slave Lives in the Confederacy -- Chapter Twenty. Free to Learn: Educating Freedpeople -- PART V Aftermaths -- Chapter Twenty-One “That Such a Thing Could Ever Happen”: The Death of a President -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Out at the Soldiers’ Home: Union Veterans -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Children of the Battlefield: Soldiers’ Orphans -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Up from Slavery: African Americans after the War -- Chapter Twenty-Five “True Soldiers of the Southern Cross”: Confederate Women and the Lost Cause -- Chapter Twenty-Six. The Devil’s Civil War: The Stories of Ambrose Bierce -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index
Summary: The author of an acclaimed account of the lives of children in the Civil War, Marten here provides a more comprehensive introduction to the civilian history of the Civil War. Concise, vividly written chapters describe the home front through the lives of individuals and the histories of events and institutions in the North and South. The stories are organized around five broad themes: the Northern home front, the Southern home front, children, African Americans, and the war’s aftermath. The case studies feature voices of the famous, like Edmund Riffin and Booker T. Washington, but more often they offer the testimony of ordinary men, women, and children. A superb blend of traditional narrative, case studies, and individual stories, Civil War America is a valuable resource for students and their teachers seeking to understand the many ways in which the Civil War was truly a people’s war.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: “A People’s War” -- PART I Southern Civilians under Siege -- Chapter One. The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin -- Chapter Two. Times to Try a Woman’s Soul -- Chapter Three. A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees -- Chapter Four “A Species of Passionate Insanity”: Women of Vicksburg -- Chapter Five. Culture Clash: Invaders and Rebels in the Occupied South -- Chapter Six. A Lukewarm People: Home Front Dissenters in the Confederacy -- Chapter Seven “I Ain’t Ashamed of Nuthin”: Bill Arp Explains the Confederate Home Front -- PART II Northern Society at War -- Chapter Eight. George Templeton Strong and the Serious Job of Journalizing -- Chapter Nine. Reporting the War: Civil War Journalism in the North -- Chapter Ten. Literary Nurses: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman -- Chapter Eleven. Thinking Big: Love and Advice from Civil War Fathers -- Chapter Twelve. A Record of Munificence: Supporting the Troops -- Chapter Thirteen “The Bloody Week”: The New York City Draft Riots -- PART III The Children’s Civil War -- Chapter Fourteen. Rabid Partisans among Their Playmates -- Chapter Fifteen. What a Difference a War Makes: A Northern Boy and a Southern Girl -- Chapter Sixteen. Playing Soldier: Phip Flaxen and the Watermelon War -- Chapter Seventeen. Oliver Optic’s Civil War: Northern Children and the Literary War for the Union -- PART IV African Americans and the War -- Chapter Eighteen. Havens and Hellholes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contraband Camps -- Chapter Nineteen. Testing the Boundaries: Slave Lives in the Confederacy -- Chapter Twenty. Free to Learn: Educating Freedpeople -- PART V Aftermaths -- Chapter Twenty-One “That Such a Thing Could Ever Happen”: The Death of a President -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Out at the Soldiers’ Home: Union Veterans -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Children of the Battlefield: Soldiers’ Orphans -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Up from Slavery: African Americans after the War -- Chapter Twenty-Five “True Soldiers of the Southern Cross”: Confederate Women and the Lost Cause -- Chapter Twenty-Six. The Devil’s Civil War: The Stories of Ambrose Bierce -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index

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The author of an acclaimed account of the lives of children in the Civil War, Marten here provides a more comprehensive introduction to the civilian history of the Civil War. Concise, vividly written chapters describe the home front through the lives of individuals and the histories of events and institutions in the North and South. The stories are organized around five broad themes: the Northern home front, the Southern home front, children, African Americans, and the war’s aftermath. The case studies feature voices of the famous, like Edmund Riffin and Booker T. Washington, but more often they offer the testimony of ordinary men, women, and children. A superb blend of traditional narrative, case studies, and individual stories, Civil War America is a valuable resource for students and their teachers seeking to understand the many ways in which the Civil War was truly a people’s war.

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In English.

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