Title: More than a contest between armies : essays on the Civil War era /
Authors: Marten, James Alan.; Foster, A. Kristen.
Publisher: Kent State University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: United States History; United States History
Abstract: Examines an unexplored aspect of the Civil War and reinterprets an important theme of the conflict. The essays include such topics as the war's effect on race and gender, and historians' interests in studying the experiences of representative individuals as well as communities.
Contents: "Momentous events in small places": The coming of the Civil War in two American communities / Edward L. Ayers -- Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: A relationship in language, politics, and memory / David W. Blight -- The "wicked rebellion" and the republic: Henry Tuckerman's Civil War / Robert W. Johannsen -- News from Fredericksburg / George Rable -- Grant and Halleck: Contrasts in command / John Y. Simon -- "Public women" and the Confederacy / Catherine Clinton -- "I never was a coward": Questions of bravery in a Civil War regiment / Lesley J. Gordon -- Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and civil liberties / Mark E. Neely Jr. -- Why didn't the North hang some rebels? The postwar debate over punishment for treason / William Blair -- Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant: A history of the Union cause / Joan Waugh -- "Touched with fire?": Two Philadelphia novelists remember the Civil War / J. Matthew Gallman -- Jubal A. Early, the lost cause, and Civil War history: a persistent legacy / Gary W. Gallagher.