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The war went on : reconsidering the lives of Civil War veterans / edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Evan C. Rothera.

"In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by memory studies and energized by the ongoing neo-revisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable....

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Jordan, Brian Matthew, 1986- (Editor), Rothera, Evan C. (Editor)
Other title:Reconsidering the lives of Civil War veterans.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Series:Conflicting worlds.
Subjects:
Veterans > United States > History > 19th century.
Veterans > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Veterans > Confederate States of America > History.
Memory > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Veterans.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Memory.
Social aspects.
Veterans.
Veterans > Social conditions.
United States.
United States > Confederate States of America.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • COVER
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I REJECTING HIBERNATION
  • "Let Us Everywhere Charge the Enemy Home": Army of the Potomac Veterans and Public Partisanship, 1864-1880
  • "The Men Are Understood to Have Been Generally Americans, in the Employ of the Liberal Government": Civil War Veterans and Mexico, 1865-1867
  • Civil War Veteran Colonies on the Western Frontier
  • The Trials of Frank James: Guerrilla Veteranhood and the Double Edge of Wartime Notoriety
  • Speaking for Themselves: Disabled Veterans and Civil War Medical Photography
  • II NARRATING THE PAST.
  • Remembering "That Dark Episode": Union and Confederate Ex-Prisoners of War and Their Captivity Narratives
  • "Exposing False History": The Voice of the Union Veteran in the Pages of the National Tribune
  • "It Is Natural That Each Comrade Should Think His Corps the Best": Sheridan's Veterans Refight the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign
  • A Building Very Useful: The Grand Army Memorial Hall in US Civic Life, 1880-1920
  • Veterans at the Footlights: Unionism and White Supremacy in the Theater of the Grand Army of the Republic
  • III THE MULTIVOCALITY OF CIVIL WAR VETERANHOOD.
  • "Our Beloved Father Abraham": African American Civil War Veterans and Abraham Lincoln in War and Memory
  • "The Colored Veteran Soldiers Should Receive the Same Tender Care": Soldiers' Homes, Race, and the Post-CivilWar Midwest
  • Lost to the Lost Cause: Arkansas's Union Veterans
  • Loyal Deserters and the Veterans Who Weren't: Pension Fraud in Lost Cause Memory
  • Veterans in New Fields: Directions for Future Scholarship on Civil War Veterans
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX.

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