Generation at War The Civil War Era in a Northern Community

Name: Generation at War The Civil War Era in a Northern Community
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ISBN: 9780700617975

ISBN-10: 0700617973

ISBN-13: 9780700617975

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nicole Etcheson

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For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community-Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction-and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war. Delving into the everyday life of a small town in one of the nineteenth century's bellwether states, A Generation at War considers the Civil War within a much broader chronological context than other accounts. It ranges across three decades…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 10/14/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.770

NICOLE ETCHESON is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Dakota.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Murder of Martha Mullinix



Before the War



A Northern Party



Appropriate Places



The Excluded Race



The War



The Copperheads



Their Own Corner



Shoulder-Strapped Negroes



After the War



Radicals and Conservatives



Pensioners



Exodusters


Conclusion: The Monument Builder


Notes


Bibliography


Index