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.
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.