The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

Paul A. Cimbala; Randall M. Miller

Published by Fordham University Press 2023

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller

In the series The North's Civil War

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531501952

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About this book

With a new preface and updated historiographical essay.

Based on recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially the letters and diaries of “ordinary people,” The Northern Home Front during the Civil War is the first full narrative history and analysis of the northern home front in almost a quarter-century. It examines the mobilization, recruitment, management, politics, costs, and experience of war from the perspective of the home front, with special attention to the ways the war affected the ideas, identities, interests, and issues shaping people’s lives, and vice versa. The book looks closely at people’s responses to war’s demands, whether in supporting the Union cause or opposing it, and it measures the ways the war transformed society and economy or simply reconfirmed ideas and reinforced practices already underway. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War reveals, issues and concerns of emancipation, conscription, civil liberties, economic policies and practices, religion, party politics, war management, popular culture, and work were all part of what Lincoln rightly termed “a People’s Contest” and as much as the armies in the field determined the outcome of the nation’s ordeal by fire. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War shows, understanding the experience of the women and men on the home front is essential to realizing Walt Whitman’s oft-quoted call to get “the real war” into the books.

This is the first overall history of the Northern home front in over a quarter century. It draws on recent scholarship and research in primary sources, especially the diaries and letters of “ordinary people,” to give an in-depth history of the ways men, women, and children responded to the demands of the Civil War.

Author / Editor information

Cimbala Paul A. :

Paul A. Cimbala is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University, The Bronx, New York. His published works include Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 and Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War. With Randall M. Miller, he has edited several essay collections dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction.Miller Randall M. :

Randall M. Miller is Professor Emeritus of History at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of numerous books on a variety of subjects, including the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, religion, and politics. Among his Civil War–related books are, as co-editor, Religion and the American Civil War; The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation; and Women and the American Civil War: North–South Counterpoints.Paul A. Cimbala (Author)
Paul A. Cimbala is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University, The Bronx, New York. His published works include Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 and Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War. With Randall M. Miller, he has edited several essay collections dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Randall M. Miller (Author)
Randall M. Miller is Professor Emeritus of History at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of numerous books on a variety of subjects, including the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, religion, and politics. Among his Civil War–related books are, as co-editor, Religion and the American Civil War; The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation; and Women and the American Civil War: North–South Counterpoints.

Reviews

Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller are editors extraordinaire. . . . In this short volume, the authors provide ample evidence of how much the lives Northerners were eager to get on with, as well as the nation they inhabited, were changed. A synthesis of recent scholarship on the war, The Northern Home Front During the Civil War also features original research that highlights how everyday Americans in Northern communities sought to make sense of a war that came into their homes and communities and stayed there too long.

The Northern Home Front During the Civil War would be an excellent book to assign to undergrads in a class on the Northern experience of the war and possibly a Civil War survey.

Updated scholarship and an excellent bibliographic essay make the current volume worth the price. . . . In all, a worthwhile purchase, handsomely produced and well written. Summing up: recommended. All academic levels/libraries.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE TO THE FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS EDITION Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
One COMMUNITIES ON THE VERGE OF WAR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Two THE SECESSION CRISIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Three FORT SUMTER AND THE PATRIOTIC RESPONSE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Four RALLYING TO THE COLORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Five SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS AS NEIGHBORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Six INCOMPLETE FAMILIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Seven PASTIMES WITH PURPOSE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Eight KNOWING WAR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Nine PAYING FOR THE WAR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Ten PRODUCING FOR THE WAR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Eleven POLITICS AND DISSENT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Twelve EMANCIPATION, CONSCRIPTION, AND DISSENT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Thirteen THE TRANSITION FROM WAR TO PEACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 262
Illustrations
- Other: 19 b/w illustrations
Keywords: Civil War; Politics; History

eBook

Published: February 21, 2023
ISBN: 9781531501952