Remembering the Civil War Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation

Name: Remembering the Civil War Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
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ISBN: 9781469607061

ISBN-10: 1469607069

ISBN-13: 9781469607061

Edition: 2013

Authors: Caroline E. Janney

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As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. InRemembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates--crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict. Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans, and most especially their respective women's organizations, clung tenaciously to their own causes well into…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/3/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue



The War, April 1861-March 1865, 12



A Magnanimous Peace?, April-May 1865



Mourning and Celebration in the Wake of War, 1865-1869



Union and Emancipation, 1865-1880s



The Lost Cause, 1867-1890



Our Friends, the Enemy, 1880s-Early 1900s



Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation, 1880s-1890s



Women and Reconciliation, 1880s-1910s



A New Generation, 1913-1939


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index