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Recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. The product of over a decade of research, Lesley J. Gordon's A Broken Regiment illuminates the unit's complex history amid the interplay of various, and often competing, voices.

Charts a path to understanding how the animal world became deeply involved in the most divisive moment in American history. The contributors to this volume - scholars of animal history and Civil War historians - argue for an animal-centered narrative to complement the human-centered accounts of the war.

The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the unprecedented project of wartime and peacetime military occupation, initiating a national debate about the changing nature of American military practice.

Presents a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. These voices have particular resonance today and underscore how rival memory traditions stir passion and controversy, providing essential testimony for anyone seeking to understand the US's greatest trial and its aftermath.

Examines identity and nationalism in the post-Civil War South through the lens of commemorative activity, namely Independence Day celebrations and the Centennial of 1876. The often colourful and engaging discourse surrounding these observances provides a fascinating portrait of this fractured moment in the development of American nationalism.

CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell "Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland," Richard Bell "Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre-Civil War Maryland," Jessica Millward "Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore," Martha S. Jones "'Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union' The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent," Charles W. Mitchell "Baltimore's Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath," Frank Towers "Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland," Frank J. Williams "The Fighting Sons of 'My Maryland' The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861-1865," Timothy J. Orr "'What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick' Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam," Brian Matthew Jordan "Confederate Invasions of Maryland," Thomas G. Clemens "Achieving Emancipation in Maryland," Jonathan W. White "Maryland's Women at War," Robert W. Schoeberlein "The Failed Promise of Reconstruction," Sharita Jacobs Thompson "'F--k the Confederacy' The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865," Robert J. Cook

Examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers - Black and white, North and South. Invisible Wounds is a sweeping reevaluation of the mental damage inflicted by America's most tragic conflict.

Examines pardon petitions from former Confederate soldiers and sympathizers in Tennessee to craft a unique and comprehensive analysis of the process of Reconstruction in the Volunteer State after the Civil War. These under utilized petitions contain a wealth of information about Tennesseans from an array of social and economic backgrounds.

Argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium.

Explores how Britons envisioned the American Civil War and how these conceptions influenced their discussions about race, politics, society, military affairs, and nationalism. Contributing new research that expands upon previous scholarship, Dubrulle offers a methodical dissection of the ideological forces that shaped opinion.

The collected essays in Upon the Fields of Battle demonstrate how historians enrich Civil War studies by approaching the period through the specific but nonetheless expansive lens of military history. Contributors present an innovative volume that deeply integrates and analyses the ideas and practices of the military during the Civil War.

Offers an in-depth examination of Alabama's black and white Union soldiers and their contributions to the eventual success of the Union army. Christopher Rein contends that the state's anti-Confederate residents tendered an important service to the North, primarily by collecting intelligence and protecting logistical infrastructure.

A collection of essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings have sustained their influence over generations.

Recovers and analyses the global imaginings of Reconstruction's partisans, those who struggled over and with Reconstruction, as they vied with one another to define the nature of their country after the Civil War.

Considers whether poor northern men bore the highest burden of military service during the American Civil War. Examining data on median family wealth from the 1860 United States Census, Marvel reveals the economic conditions of the earliest volunteers from each northern state during the seven major recruitment and conscription periods of the war.

The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives, The Civil War and the Transformation of American Citizenship offers a wide-ranging exploration of citizenship's metamorphoses amid the extended crises of war and emancipation.

Uncovers how evangelical Christians in the border states influenced debates about slavery, morality, and politics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Using little-studied events and surprising incidents from the region, April Holm argues that evangelicals on the border powerfully shaped the regional structure of American religion in the Civil War era.

Offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate South.

Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare, including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics, thrived in localized guerrilla fights. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts.

Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the centre of American commerce and culture. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored.

During the American Civil War the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental conditions, irregular warfare, and intense racial tensions. Matthew Stith focuses on Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory to examine the physical and cultural frontiers that challenged Confederate and Union forces alike.

Probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the US in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analysing over 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict, Robin Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations of cruelty.

Argues that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state - a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government.

Explores the role of the volunteer officer corps during the Civil War and the unique leadership challenges they faced when military necessity clashed with the antebellum democratic values of volunteer soldiers.

Patrick Henry Jones's obituary vowed that "his memory shall not fade among men." Yet in little more than a century, history has largely forgotten Jones's considerable accomplishments in the Civil War and the Gilded Age that followed. In this masterful biography, Mark Dunkelman resurrects Jones's story and restores him to his rightful standing.

Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War veterans' commemorative efforts and the concomitant - and sometimes conflicting - movement for reconciliation.

Offers eight case studies that illuminate the critical roles the Union corps commanders played in shaping the US Civil War's course and outcome. The contributors examine widespread assumptions about these men while considering the array of internal and external forces that shaped their efforts on and off the battlefield.

Surveys the broad array of criticisms about Abraham Lincoln that emerged when he stepped onto the national stage, expanded during the Civil War, and continued to evolve after his death and into the present.

During the Civil War, North Carolinian William Dorsey Pender established himself as one of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's best young generals. In this thorough biography of Pender, Civil War historian Brian Steel Wills examines both the young general's military career and his domestic life.

Focusing on William Lloyd Garrison's and Giuseppe Mazzini's activities and transnational links within their own milieus and in the wider international arena, Dal Lago shows why two nineteenth-century progressives and revolutionaries considered liberation from enslavement and liberation from national oppression as two sides of the same coin.