Remembering the Civil War : reunion and the limits of reconciliation / / Caroline E. Janney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786855703321
• Autore: Janney Caroline E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2013
• ISBN: 979-88-908826-0-8; 1-4696-0797-2; 1-4696-0707-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 451 pages) : illustrations)
• Collana: The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
• Disciplina: 973.7/1
• Soggetti: Reunions - United States - History - 19th century; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Veterans
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The war, April 1861-March 1865 -- A magnanimous peace? April-May 1865 -- Mourning and celebration in the wake of war, 1865-1869 -- Union and emancipation, 1865-1880's -- The lost cause, 1867-1890 -- Our friends, the enemy, 1880's-early 1900's -- Slavery, race, and reconciliation, 1880's-1890's -- Women and reconciliation, 1880's-1910's -- A new generation, 1913-1939.
• Sommario/riassunto: As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates--crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict. Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans...