l. "We Are All in This War": The 148th Pennsylvania and Home Front Dissension in Centre County during the Civil War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION xi
5. 1. Filling the Ranks
6. l. "We Are All in This War": The 148th Pennsylvania and Home Front Dissension in Centre County during the Civil War 3
7. 2. "Volunteer While You May": Manpower Mobilization in Dubuque, Iowa 30
8. 3. "If They Would Know What I Know It Would Be Pretty Hard to Raise One Company in York": Recruiting, the Draft, and Society's Response in York County, Pennsylvania, 1861-1865 69
9. 2. Northerners and Their Men in Arms
10. 4. "Tell Me What the Sensations Are": The Northern Home Front Learns about Combat 119
11. 5. "Listen Ladies One and All": Union Soldiers Yearn for the Society of Their "Fair Cousins of the North" 143
12. 6. Soldiering on the Home Front: The Veteran Reserve Corps and the Northern People 182
13. 7. Saving Jack: Religion, Benevolent Organizations, and Union Sailors during the Civil War 219
14. 8. In the Lord's Army: The United States Christian Commission, Soldiers, and the Union War Eff 263
15. 9. Carrying the Home Front to War: Soldiers, Race, and New England Culture during the Civil War 293
16. 3. From War to Peace
17. 10. "Surely They Remember Me": The 16th Connecticut in War, Captivity, and Public Memory 327
18. 11. "Honorable Scars": Norther:p Amputees and the Meaning of Civil War Injuries 361
19. 12. The Impact of the Civil War on Nineteenth-Century Marriages 395
20. 13. A Different Civil War: African American Veterans in New Bedford, Massachusetts 417
21. 14. "I Would Rather Shake Hands with the Blackest Nigger in the Land": Northern Black Civil War Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic 442
22. 15. "For Every Man Who Wore the Blue": The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and the Charges of Elitism after the Civil War 463
23. AFTERWORD 483
24. CONTRIBUTORS 489
25. INDEX 493