Waugh, Joan.
Wars Within a War : Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (309 pages) - Civil War America Ser. . - Civil War America Ser. .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Women Numerous and Armed: Gender and the Politics of Subsistence in the Civil War South -- Friend or Foe: Treason and the Second Confiscation Act -- My Enemies Are Crushed: McClellan and Lincoln -- Profile in Leadership: Generalship and Resistance in Robert E. Lee's First Month in Command of the Army of Northern Virginia -- In Your Hands That Musket Means Liberty: African American Soldiers and the Battle of Olustee -- With Malice toward Both: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in Caricature -- Walt Whitman's Real Wars -- Hollywood Has It Both Ways: The Rise, Fall, and Reappearance of the Lost Cause in American Film -- Battle over the Bodies: Burying and Reburying the Civil War Dead, 1865-1871 -- Not a Veteran in the Poorhouse: Civil War Pensions and Soldiers' Homes -- William T. Sherman in Postwar Georgia's Collective Memory, 1864-1914 -- The Nation's Greatest Hero Should Rest in the Nation's Greatest City -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant's imposing tomb, and Hollywood's long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative. The contributors are William Blair, Stephen Cushman, Drew Gilpin Faust, Gary W. Gallagher, J. Matthew Gallman, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Harold Holzer, James Marten, Stephanie McCurry, James M. McPherson, Carol Reardon, and Joan Waugh.
9780807898444
Social conflict -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Social conflict -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
War and society -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
War and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Electronic books.
E468.9 -- .W29 2009eb
973.7/1
Wars Within a War : Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (309 pages) - Civil War America Ser. . - Civil War America Ser. .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Women Numerous and Armed: Gender and the Politics of Subsistence in the Civil War South -- Friend or Foe: Treason and the Second Confiscation Act -- My Enemies Are Crushed: McClellan and Lincoln -- Profile in Leadership: Generalship and Resistance in Robert E. Lee's First Month in Command of the Army of Northern Virginia -- In Your Hands That Musket Means Liberty: African American Soldiers and the Battle of Olustee -- With Malice toward Both: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in Caricature -- Walt Whitman's Real Wars -- Hollywood Has It Both Ways: The Rise, Fall, and Reappearance of the Lost Cause in American Film -- Battle over the Bodies: Burying and Reburying the Civil War Dead, 1865-1871 -- Not a Veteran in the Poorhouse: Civil War Pensions and Soldiers' Homes -- William T. Sherman in Postwar Georgia's Collective Memory, 1864-1914 -- The Nation's Greatest Hero Should Rest in the Nation's Greatest City -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant's imposing tomb, and Hollywood's long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative. The contributors are William Blair, Stephen Cushman, Drew Gilpin Faust, Gary W. Gallagher, J. Matthew Gallman, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Harold Holzer, James Marten, Stephanie McCurry, James M. McPherson, Carol Reardon, and Joan Waugh.
9780807898444
Social conflict -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Social conflict -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
War and society -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
War and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Electronic books.
E468.9 -- .W29 2009eb
973.7/1