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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: “A People’s War” xi
  5. PART I Southern Civilians under Siege
  6. Chapter One. The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin 1
  7. Chapter Two. Times to Try a Woman’s Soul 17
  8. Chapter Three. A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees 27
  9. Chapter Four “A Species of Passionate Insanity”: Women of Vicksburg 39
  10. Chapter Five. Culture Clash: Invaders and Rebels in the Occupied South 51
  11. Chapter Six. A Lukewarm People: Home Front Dissenters in the Confederacy 63
  12. Chapter Seven “I Ain’t Ashamed of Nuthin”: Bill Arp Explains the Confederate Home Front 73
  13. PART II Northern Society at War
  14. Chapter Eight. George Templeton Strong and the Serious Job of Journalizing 83
  15. Chapter Nine. Reporting the War: Civil War Journalism in the North 97
  16. Chapter Ten. Literary Nurses: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman 111
  17. Chapter Eleven. Thinking Big: Love and Advice from Civil War Fathers 123
  18. Chapter Twelve. A Record of Munificence: Supporting the Troops 133
  19. Chapter Thirteen “The Bloody Week”: The New York City Draft Riots 145
  20. PART III The Children’s Civil War
  21. Chapter Fourteen. Rabid Partisans among Their Playmates 157
  22. Chapter Fifteen. What a Difference a War Makes: A Northern Boy and a Southern Girl 169
  23. Chapter Sixteen. Playing Soldier: Phip Flaxen and the Watermelon War 179
  24. Chapter Seventeen. Oliver Optic’s Civil War: Northern Children and the Literary War for the Union 191
  25. PART IV African Americans and the War
  26. Chapter Eighteen. Havens and Hellholes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contraband Camps 205
  27. Chapter Nineteen. Testing the Boundaries: Slave Lives in the Confederacy 219
  28. Chapter Twenty. Free to Learn: Educating Freedpeople 229
  29. PART V Aftermaths
  30. Chapter Twenty-One “That Such a Thing Could Ever Happen”: The Death of a President 243
  31. Chapter Twenty-Two. Out at the Soldiers’ Home: Union Veterans 259
  32. Chapter Twenty-Three. Children of the Battlefield: Soldiers’ Orphans 271
  33. Chapter Twenty-Four. Up from Slavery: African Americans after the War 283
  34. Chapter Twenty-Five “True Soldiers of the Southern Cross”: Confederate Women and the Lost Cause 295
  35. Chapter Twenty-Six. The Devil’s Civil War: The Stories of Ambrose Bierce 309
  36. Bibliographical Essay 319
  37. Index 325
Civil War America
This chapter is in the book Civil War America
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291199-030

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: “A People’s War” xi
  5. PART I Southern Civilians under Siege
  6. Chapter One. The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin 1
  7. Chapter Two. Times to Try a Woman’s Soul 17
  8. Chapter Three. A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees 27
  9. Chapter Four “A Species of Passionate Insanity”: Women of Vicksburg 39
  10. Chapter Five. Culture Clash: Invaders and Rebels in the Occupied South 51
  11. Chapter Six. A Lukewarm People: Home Front Dissenters in the Confederacy 63
  12. Chapter Seven “I Ain’t Ashamed of Nuthin”: Bill Arp Explains the Confederate Home Front 73
  13. PART II Northern Society at War
  14. Chapter Eight. George Templeton Strong and the Serious Job of Journalizing 83
  15. Chapter Nine. Reporting the War: Civil War Journalism in the North 97
  16. Chapter Ten. Literary Nurses: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman 111
  17. Chapter Eleven. Thinking Big: Love and Advice from Civil War Fathers 123
  18. Chapter Twelve. A Record of Munificence: Supporting the Troops 133
  19. Chapter Thirteen “The Bloody Week”: The New York City Draft Riots 145
  20. PART III The Children’s Civil War
  21. Chapter Fourteen. Rabid Partisans among Their Playmates 157
  22. Chapter Fifteen. What a Difference a War Makes: A Northern Boy and a Southern Girl 169
  23. Chapter Sixteen. Playing Soldier: Phip Flaxen and the Watermelon War 179
  24. Chapter Seventeen. Oliver Optic’s Civil War: Northern Children and the Literary War for the Union 191
  25. PART IV African Americans and the War
  26. Chapter Eighteen. Havens and Hellholes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contraband Camps 205
  27. Chapter Nineteen. Testing the Boundaries: Slave Lives in the Confederacy 219
  28. Chapter Twenty. Free to Learn: Educating Freedpeople 229
  29. PART V Aftermaths
  30. Chapter Twenty-One “That Such a Thing Could Ever Happen”: The Death of a President 243
  31. Chapter Twenty-Two. Out at the Soldiers’ Home: Union Veterans 259
  32. Chapter Twenty-Three. Children of the Battlefield: Soldiers’ Orphans 271
  33. Chapter Twenty-Four. Up from Slavery: African Americans after the War 283
  34. Chapter Twenty-Five “True Soldiers of the Southern Cross”: Confederate Women and the Lost Cause 295
  35. Chapter Twenty-Six. The Devil’s Civil War: The Stories of Ambrose Bierce 309
  36. Bibliographical Essay 319
  37. Index 325
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