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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453125703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8093-3265-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AleyGinette <1963->

AndersonJ. L <1966-> (Joseph Leslie)

Disciplina

973.7/1

Soggetti

Farmers - Political activity - Middle West - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Middle West History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.