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.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Foreword : Civil War history plows a new field / The great national struggle and the midwestern home front : an introductory overview / Captivating captives : an excursion to Johnson's Island Civil War prison / "Ours is the harder lot" : student patriotism at the University of Michigan during the Civil War / The agricultural power of the Midwest during the Civil War / No fit wife : soldiers' wives and their in-laws on the Indiana home front / Inescapable realities : rural Midwestern women and families during the Civil War / The vacant chair on the farm : soldier husbands, farm wives, and the Iowa home front, 1861-65 / Limiting dissent in the Midwest : Ohio Republicans' attacks on the Democratic press / William C. Davis -- Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson -- Michael P. Gray -- Julie A. Mujic -- R. Douglas Hurt -- Nicole Etcheson -- Ginette Aley -- J.L. Anderson -- 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