The North’s Civil War

Edited by Andrew L. Slap, East Tennessee State University

The North’s Civil War series explores Northern society and its role in a broadly defined Civil War era, stretching from the antebellum development of the North to the aftereffects of the conflict in the postbellum period. With regard to the Civil War itself, the series focuses on both the Northern home front and the Union military, following Northern soldiers and sailors to battlefields and occupation duty throughout the South. The series encompasses innovative scholarship in a variety of fields, including military, biographical, social, political, intellectual, environmental, diplomatic, religious, and cultural history. Focusing on the North and its people during the Civil War era adds a vital perspective to understanding one of the most important eras in American history.

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Family War Stories

Family War Stories

Keith P. Wilson

Keith P. Wilson

Based on an extensive collection of letters written from the home front and the battlefront, Family War Stories offers fresh insights into how the reciprocal nature of family correspondence can shape...

ISBN: 9781531505400

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller

Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller

With a new preface and updated historiographical essay.Based on recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially the letters and diaries of “ordinary people,” The Northern Home...

ISBN: 9781531501938

New Perspectives on the Union War

New Perspectives on the Union War

Gary W. Gallagher, Elizabeth R. Varon, Michael Caires, Frank Cirillo, D.H. Dilbeck, Jack Furniss, Gary W. Gallagher, Jesse George-Nichol, William B. Kurtz, Peter Luebke, Tamika Nunley, Elizabeth R. Varon

Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Elizabeth R. Varon

Contributor(s): Michael Caires, Frank Cirillo, D.H. Dilbeck, Jack Furniss, Gary W. Gallagher, Jesse George-Nichol, William B. Kurtz, Peter Luebke, Tamika Nunley and Elizabeth R. Varon

New Perspectives on the Union War explores, at a wide array of points along the political spectrum, the many shapes patriotic sentiment took in the loyal states during the Civil War. The essays provide new insights into well-known figures such as Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, political philosopher Francis Lieber, African American author/entrepreneur Elizabeth Keckley, abolitionist Abby Kelly Foster, New York governor Horatio Seymour, and Attorney General Edward Bates. They also offer the perspectives of common soldiers, of the partisan press, of the clergy, and of social reformers.

ISBN: 9780823284535

A Great Sacrifice

A Great Sacrifice

James G. Mendez

James G. Mendez

This study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.

ISBN: 9780823282494

Our Country

Grant R. Brodrecht

Grant R. Brodrecht

Our Country explores northern evangelical thought and sentiment regarding the concept of Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction. A primary aim of the book is to shift our focus back toward the Union’s importance in relation to northern understanding during the Civil War-era.

ISBN: 9780823279913

Deserter Country

Deserter Country

Robert M. Sandow

Robert M. Sandow

During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war -from the deadly Draft Riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In Deserter Country, Robert...

ISBN: 9780823230525

On the Edge of Freedom

On the Edge of Freedom

David G. Smith

David G. Smith

Describes the development of antislavery activism in border south central Pennsylvania. Rather than engage in public protest, activists concentrated on protecting fugitive slaves and prosecuting those who sought to recapture them. This approach paid dividends before the Civil War, but did not provide a solid basis for equal opportunity afterwards.

ISBN: 9780823263790

The Lincoln Assassination

The Lincoln Assassination

Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams

Craig L. Symonds and Frank J. Williams

Edited by Harold Holzer

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians...

ISBN: 9780823263981

Contested Loyalty

Contested Loyalty

Robert M. Sandow, Gary W. Gallagher, Judith Giesberg, Ryan W. Keating, Melinda Lawson, Julie A. Mujic, Timothy J. Orr, Thaddeus M. Romansky, Jonathan W. White

Edited by Robert M. Sandow

Contributor(s): Judith Giesberg, Ryan W. Keating, Melinda Lawson, Julie A. Mujic, Timothy J. Orr, Thaddeus M. Romansky and Jonathan W. White

Situational and wartime constructions of "Patriotism" and "Loyalty" shaped American discourse and actions throughout the Civil War. While most scholarly work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on southern identity and Confederate nationhood, this volume examines the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the Civil War Era North.

ISBN: 9780823279753

Shades of Green

Shades of Green

Ryan W. Keating

Ryan W. Keating

Drawing on records of about 5,500 soldiers and veterans, Shades of Green traces the organization of Irish regiments from the perspective of local communities in Connecticut, Illinois, and Wisconsin...

ISBN: 9780823276608

Excommunicated from the Union

Excommunicated from the Union

William B. Kurtz

William B. Kurtz

The American Civil War helped to isolate Catholics further from the rest of American society. The service of Catholic soldiers in the Union Army did not eradicate nativism or anti-Catholicism because so many other Catholic northerners prominently opposed the war and emancipation.

ISBN: 9780823268863

Northern Character

Northern Character

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

This book examines the social and gendered world of college-educated New Englanders who fought in the Civil War by exploring how they tried to develop good character traits and a sense of nationalism. The book also explores how these men interacted with soldiers and southerners, faced battle, and approached Reconstruction.

ISBN: 9780823271825

This Distracted and Anarchical People

This Distracted and Anarchical People

Andrew L. Slap, Michael Thomas Smith

Edited by Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith

Eleven iconoclastic scholars take aim at many of the accepted interpretations of the Civil War North in this provocative new anthology

ISBN: 9780823245697

A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865

A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865

George Washington Williams, John David Smith

George Washington Williams

A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washington Williams remains a classic text in African...

ISBN: 9780823233854

Chancellorsville and the Germans

Chancellorsville and the Germans

Christian B. Keller

Christian B. Keller

Often called Lee’s greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. Poorly deployed, the unit was routed...

ISBN: 9780823226511

Gettysburg Religion

Gettysburg Religion

Steve Longenecker

Steve Longenecker

Brings to life the religious history of a small and famous town and the surrounding area, the Border North. The theme is that Gettysburg religion reveals much about larger American society, often something unexpected and indicative of the Border North’s advanced modernity.

ISBN: 9780823255191

Union Combined Operations in the Civil War

Union Combined Operations in the Civil War

Craig L. Symonds

Edited by Craig L. Symonds

Despite a wealth of books on the campaigns of the American Civil War, the subject of combined or joint operations has been largely neglected. This revealing book offers ten case studies of combined...

ISBN: 9780823232864

Lincoln and Leadership

Lincoln and Leadership

Randall M. Miller, Allen C. Guelzo

Edited by Randall M. Miller

Afterword by Allen C. Guelzo

This book examines Lincoln’s leadership by assessing his decision-making process and patterns in shaping military strategy, political affairs, and religious interests during the Civil War. In doing so, it shows how Lincoln defined the presidency in wartime, played the role of party chief, and pointed the moral compass of the nation.

ISBN: 9780823243457

Exploring Lincoln

Exploring Lincoln

Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams

Craig L. Symonds and Frank J. Williams

Edited by Harold Holzer

Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about...

ISBN: 9780823265633

"First among Equals"

"First among Equals"

Hans L. Trefousse

Hans L. Trefousse

One hundred and forty years after his assassination on April 14, 1865, AbrahamLincoln towers more than ever above the landscape of American politics. Inmyth and memory, he is always the Great Emancipator...

ISBN: 9780823224692

A Philadelphia Perspective

A Philadelphia Perspective

Sidney George Fisher, Jonathan White, Jonathan W. White

Sidney George Fisher

Edited by Jonathan White and Jonathan W. White

"Invaluable…many insights into the life and thought of the nineteenth century…. [Fisher's] comments are stimulating, often barbed….the narrative is smooth-flowing and fascinating."-American Historical...

ISBN: 9780823227280

Fear Was Not in Him

Fear Was Not in Him

Christian G. Samito

Christian G. Samito

Originally untrained in military science, Francis Channing Barlow ended the Civil War as one of the North's premier combat generals. He played decisive roles in historic campaigns throughout the War...

ISBN: 9780823223244

Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front

Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front

Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller

Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller

Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments explores the North's Civil War in ways that brings fresh perspectives to our knowledge of the way soldiers and civilians...

ISBN: 9780823221462

From First to Last

From First to Last

Mark A. Snell

Mark A. Snell

From First to Last is complete life story of one of the most controversial yet least well known generals on either side during the Civil War. The number one graduate of the West Point class of 1843,...

ISBN: 9780823221493

Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era

Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era

Herman Belz

Herman Belz

This striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries and extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination. It...

ISBN: 9780823217694