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Sing Not War : The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America /

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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Marten, James Alan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.