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Book

Union heartland : the midwestern home front during the Civil War

Call Number

  • H 973.71 U5812 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]

Physical Description

xiv, 196 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Foreword : Civil War history plows a new field / The great national struggle in the heart of the union : an introduction / 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

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