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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.
Contents
Editor's Acknowledgments ix Editor's Introduction by JOAN E. CASHIN 1 PART ONE: The South 1. Of Bells, Booms, Sounds, and Silences: Listening to the Civil War South by Mark M. Smith 9 2. A Compound of Wonderful Potency: Women Teachers of he North in the Civil War South by Nina Silber 35 3. Slaves, Emancipation, and the Powers of War: Views from the Natchez District of Mississippi by Anthony E. Kaye 60 4. Hearth, Home, and Family in the Fredericksburg Campaign by George C. Rable 85 5. The Uncertainty of Life: A Profile of Virginia's Civil War Widows by Robert Kenzer 112 6. Race, Memory, and Masculinity: Black Veterans Recall the Civil War by W. Fitzhugh Brundage 136 PART TWO: The North 7. An Inspiration to Work: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Public Orator by J. Matthew Gallman 159 8. We Are Coming, Father Abraham-Eventually: The Problem of Northern Nationalism in the Pennsylvania Recruiting Drives of 1862 by William Blair 183 9. Living on the Fault Line: African American Civilians and the Gettysburg Campaign by Margaret S. Creighton 209 10. Cannonballs and Books: Reading and the Disruption of Social Ties on the New England Home Front by Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray 237 11. Deserters, Civilians, and Draft Resistance in the North by Joan E. Cashin 262 12. Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln by Elizabeth D. Leonard 286 PART THREE: The Border Regions 13. On the Border: White Children and the Politics of War in Maryland by Peter W. Bardaglio 313 14. Duty, Country, Race, and Party: The Evans Family of Ohio by Joseph T. Glatthaar 332 15. Union Father, Rebel Son: Families and the Question of Civil War Loyalty by Amy E. Murrell 358 About the Contributors 393 Index 395
