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Informationen zum Autor Dorothy Volo, James M. Volo Klappentext Based on extensive research into newly discovered documents, this new edition of the popular volume offers an updated look at the daily lives of ordinary citizens caught up in the Civil War. When first published, Daily Life in Civil War America shifted the spotlight from the conflict's military operations and famous leaders to its affect on day-to-day living. Now this popular, groundbreaking work returns in a thoroughly updated new edition, drawing on an expanded range of journals, journalism, diaries, and correspondence to capture the realities of wartime life for soldiers and citizens, slaves and free persons, women and children, on both sides of the conflict.In addition to chapter-by-chapter updating, the edition features new chapters on two important topics: the affects of the war on families, focusing on the absence of men on the home front and the plight of nearly 26,000 children orphaned by the war; and the activities of the Copperheads, anti-Confederate border residents, and other Southern pacifist groups. Zusammenfassung Based on extensive research into newly discovered documents! this new edition of the popular volume offers an updated look at the daily lives of ordinary citizens caught up in the Civil War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to the Revised Edition Chronology Part I: History, Politics, and Slavery 1. The Historian's War 19th-century America Sowing the Seeds of Conflict A Divided Economy Modernization Politics as Usual 2. Politics: The National Hobby The Politics of Division The Election of 1860 Secession Fire-Eaters The Southern Radical Press The Act of Disunion 3. The American Zion The Perfect Nation Growing Government Urbanization Religion Reform Movements The Temperance Movement The Prevention of Pauperism The Value of a Dollar The North Finances the War 4. On Behalf of Southern Independence Southern Nationalism Reestablishing the American Revolution Financing Disunion Blockade Runners The Bread Riots 5. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery The Slave Trade Plantation Slavery Slave Clothing Slave Work Week Slave Food Slave Entertainment Legal Rights for Slaves and Discipline Draft Riots Black Churches The Slave Family Miscegenation 6. Abolition The Anti-Slavery Movement Suppression of the Slave Trade Gradualism and Colonization Abolitionists Black Anti-Slavery Activists Slaveowners Slavery and the Courts Mutiny on the Amistad The Lemmon Case The Dred Scott Decision Fugitive Slaves From Slavery to Contraband Part II: Soldiers' Lives 7. Billy Yank and Johnny Reb Common Soldiers Boys in War Partisan Warfare Conscription Prisoners of War Disbanding the Armies 8. Hardtack and Coffee Supplying the Army with Grub Army Food Cookware The Commissary Foodstuffs Canned Foods Camp Rations Marching Rations Sutlers Officers' Mess Foraging Fresh Meat Preserved Meats Fresh Bread Hardtack Cornbread Coffee Salt and Life 9. Tenting Tonight: The Solider's Life Shelter Equipment Uniforms Camp Life and Recreation 10. Tactics and Strategy Strategy Geography Raiders Railroads Roads Military Organization Armies Corps and Divisions Tactics Ancillary Units Medical Service Moral Awakening Women at War 11. Seeing the Elephant: The Realities of Life in Battle Marching to War Making Contact A Day of Battle Wounded in Battle Climax The Aftermath Part III: Civilians' Lives 12. Be It Ever So Humble The Front Hall The Parlor The Library The Dining Room The Kitchen The Bedrooms The Nursery The Necessary 13. Leisure Time Literature Newspapers Avail...
