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The Loyal West : Civil War and Reunion in Middle America /

'The Loyal West' examines identity and memory among Union soldiers and veterans in the Lower Middle West, a previously overlooked region.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stanley, Matthew E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the geography embodied: loyal westerners in war and peace
  • The progeny of Jamestown: racial construction and western identity on the Dixie frontier
  • The boundary between contending nations: border war and restraints on western unity
  • The war fattens on the blood of western men: the limits of practical abolitionism on slavery's western border
  • The great brotherhood of the west: the demise of the antebellum west and the construction of the loyal west
  • Was it for this you fought?: retreat from Reconstruction, the new white supremacy in the loyal west
  • Never checked
  • always victorious: the heyday of the loyal west
  • Solely to suppress the rebellion: commemorating conservative unionism in the loyal west
  • Epilogue: no more shall the winding rivers be red: reconciliation and the passing of the loyal west.