TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marten,James
TI  - Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
T2  - Civil War America
SN  - 9780807877685
AV  - E491 -- .M14 2011eb 
U1  - 973.7/1 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Adaptability (Psychology)
KW  - Adjustment (Psychology)
KW  - United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
KW  - United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Toil On, Heroes -- 1 Melt Away Ye Armies: Endings and Beginnings -- 2 Maimed Darlings: Living with Disability -- 3 Saner Wars: Veterans, Veteranhood, and Commerce -- 4 Regiments So Piteous: Soldiers' Homes, Communities, and Manhood -- 5 Another Gathering Army: Pensions and Preference -- 6 Sad, Unnatural Shows of War: Veterans' Identity and Distinctiveness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
N2  - After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by non-veterans.Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating into their communities and returning to their civilian lives than has been previously understood. Although Civil War veterans were generally well taken care of during the Gilded Age, Marten argues that veterans lost control of their legacies, becoming best remembered as others wanted to remember them--for their service in the war and their post-war political activities. Marten finds that while southern veterans were venerated for their service to the Confederacy, Union veterans often encountered resentment and even outright hostility as they aged and made greater demands on the public purse. Drawing on letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, newspapers, and other sources, Sing Not War illustrates that during the Gilded Age "veteran" conjured up several conflicting images and invoked contradicting reactions. Deeply researched and vividly narrated, Marten's book counters the romanticized vision of the lives of Civil War veterans, bringing forth new information about how white veterans were treated and how they lived out their lives
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