“She Is a Member of the 23rd”: Lucy Nichols and the Community of the Civil War Regiment

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War–Era North 1
6. “A Press Th at Speaks Its Opinions Frankly and Openly and Fearlessly”: The Contentious Relationship between the Democratic Press and the Party in the Antebellum North 11
7. Abraham Lincoln, Manhood, and Nineteenth-Century American Political Culture 29
8. Damnable Treason or Party Organs? Democratic Secret Societies in Pennsylvania 42
9. Copperheads in Connecticut: A Peace Movement Th at Imperiled the Union 60
10. “All Manner of Schemes and Rascalities”: Th e Politics of Promotion in the Union Army 81
11. “For My Part I Dont Care Who Is Elected President”: Th e Union Army and the Elections of 1864 104
12. New Perspectives in Civil War Ethnic History and Their Implications for Twenty-First-Century Scholarship 123
13. The Black Flag and Confederate Soldiers: Total War from the Bottom Up? 142
14. Liberia and the U.S. Civil War 159
15. “No Regular Marriage”: African American Veterans and Marriage Practices aft er Emancipation 171
16. “She Is a Member of the 23rd”: Lucy Nichols and the Community of the Civil War Regiment 184
17. Afterword. On Mark Neely: An Appreciation 201
18. Notes 207
19. List of Contributors 265
20. Index 269