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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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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.