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Defining Duty in the Civil War : Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front /

Examining the breadth of Northern popular culture, J. Matthew Gallman offers a dramatic reconsideration of how the Union's civilians understood the meaning of duty and citizenship in wartime. Gallman shows how thousands of authors, artists, and readers together created a new set of rules for na...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: only bread and the newspaper we must have
  • Part I. On fools, hypocrites, and scoundrels
  • Striped pants and empty heads: the fools, swells, and jesters of the Civil War
  • Don't you think it is time you took off that uniform? Shoulder straps and faux soldiers
  • Your diamonds may flash gaily, but there's blood on them: a shoddy aristocracy
  • Part II. On duty, cowardice, and citizenship
  • Our duty: sacrifice and citizenship
  • No man of honor shall shrink from running his chance: Federal conscription and individual obligations
  • The woman hides her trembling fear: good wives and selfless volunteers
  • Will they fight? Should they fight? African Americans and citizenship in wartime
  • Conclusion: We are coming Father Abraham: patriotism and choice.