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Union heartland the midwestern home front during the Civil War / edited by Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson ; with a foreword by William C. Davis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780809332656
  • 9781299780163
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E470 .U556 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
William C. Davis -- The great national struggle and the midwestern home front : an introductory overview / Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson -- Captivating captives : an excursion to Johnson's Island Civil War prison / Michael P. Gray -- "Ours is the harder lot" : student patriotism at the University of Michigan during the Civil War / Julie A. Mujic -- The agricultural power of the Midwest during the Civil War / R. Douglas Hurt -- No fit wife : soldiers' wives and their in-laws on the Indiana home front / Nicole Etcheson -- Inescapable realities : rural Midwestern women and families during the Civil War / Ginette Aley -- The vacant chair on the farm : soldier husbands, farm wives, and the Iowa home front, 1861-65 / J.L. Anderson -- Limiting dissent in the Midwest : Ohio Republicans' attacks on the Democratic press / Brett Barker.
Subject: The Civil War has historically been viewed somewhat simplistically as a battle between the North and the South. Southern historians have broadened this viewpoint by revealing the "many Souths" that made up the Confederacy, but the "North" has remained largely undifferentiated as a geopolitical term. In this welcome collection, seven Civil War scholars offer a unique regional perspective on the Civil War by examining how a specific group of Northerners-Midwesterners, known as Westerners and Middle Westerners during the 1860s-experienced the war on the home front.Much of the inten
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword : Civil War history plows a new field / William C. Davis -- The great national struggle and the midwestern home front : an introductory overview / Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson -- Captivating captives : an excursion to Johnson's Island Civil War prison / Michael P. Gray -- "Ours is the harder lot" : student patriotism at the University of Michigan during the Civil War / Julie A. Mujic -- The agricultural power of the Midwest during the Civil War / R. Douglas Hurt -- No fit wife : soldiers' wives and their in-laws on the Indiana home front / Nicole Etcheson -- Inescapable realities : rural Midwestern women and families during the Civil War / Ginette Aley -- The vacant chair on the farm : soldier husbands, farm wives, and the Iowa home front, 1861-65 / J.L. Anderson -- Limiting dissent in the Midwest : Ohio Republicans' attacks on the Democratic press / Brett Barker.

The Civil War has historically been viewed somewhat simplistically as a battle between the North and the South. Southern historians have broadened this viewpoint by revealing the "many Souths" that made up the Confederacy, but the "North" has remained largely undifferentiated as a geopolitical term. In this welcome collection, seven Civil War scholars offer a unique regional perspective on the Civil War by examining how a specific group of Northerners-Midwesterners, known as Westerners and Middle Westerners during the 1860s-experienced the war on the home front.Much of the inten

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