The Civil War veteran
Subtitle: a historical reader
By: edited by Larry M. Logue and Michael Barton.
Contributors: Logue, Larry M., 1947-; Barton, Michael.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9780814752036; 9780814752043
Subjects: Veterans -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Veterans -- Confederate States of America -- History; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Transition to peace; title: By rail and boat / Dixon Wecter; title: Confederate demobilization / William B. Holberton; title: Did the Confederacy change Southern soldiers? / Michael Barton; title: Ghost dance / Gaines M. Foster; title: pt. 2. Problems of readjustment; title: The Civil War and the crime wave / Edith Abbott; title: Conventional wisdom versus reality / Eric H. Monkkonen; title: The veteran wins through / Dixon Wecter; title: Southern poor boys / R.B. Rosenburg; title: Opiate addiction as a consequence of the Civil War / David T. Courtwright; title: Exempt from the ordinary rules of life / James Marten; title: Post-traumatic stress / Eric T. Dean, Jr.; title: USCT veterans in post-Civil War North Carolina / Richard Reid; title: pt. 3. Governments provide aid; title: America's first social security system / Theda Skocpol; title: "I do not suppose Uncle Sam looks at the skin" / Donald R. Shaffer; title: Civil War pensions for native and foreign-born Union Army veterans / Peter Blanck and Chen Song; title: Establishing a federal entitlement / Patrick J. Kelly; title: Living monuments /R.B. Rosenburg; title: The fate of the Civil War veteran / Eric T. Dean, Jr.; title: pt. 4. Veterans fight their own battles; title: Veterans in politics / Mary R. Dearing; title: What sorts of men joined the Grand Army of the Republic? / Stuart C. McConnell; title: The reality of veterans' voting / Larry M. Logue; title: The Confederate celebration / Gaines M. Foster; title: A generation of defeat / David H. Donald; title: An activist minority / Larry M. Logue; title: Twice a child / R.B. Rosenburg; title: Collective resistance in soldiers' homes / Larry M. Logue; title: pt. 5. Veterans shape the collective memory; title: The patriotic boom / Stuart C. McConnell; title: A respect for Confederate history / Gaines M. Foster; title: Binding the wounds of war / Carol Reardon; title: Quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? / David W. Blight; title: Black veterans recall the Civil War / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.