02826oam 22005534a 450 991080748350332120210113193602.00-252-09917-6(CKB)3710000001040917(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724052(OCoLC)958498075(MdBmJHUP)muse57508(MiAaPQ)EBC4792733(EXLCZ)99371000000104091720160913d2016 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Loyal West Civil War and Reunion in Middle America /Matthew E. StanleyUrbana University of Illinois Press20161 online resource illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)Previously issued in print: 2017.0-252-08224-9 0-252-04073-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the geography embodied: loyal westerners in war and peace -- The progeny of Jamestown: racial construction and western identity on the Dixie frontier -- The boundary between contending nations: border war and restraints on western unity -- The war fattens on the blood of western men: the limits of practical abolitionism on slavery's western border -- The great brotherhood of the west: the demise of the antebellum west and the construction of the loyal west -- Was it for this you fought?: retreat from Reconstruction, the new white supremacy in the loyal west -- Never checked--always victorious: the heyday of the loyal west -- Solely to suppress the rebellion: commemorating conservative unionism in the loyal west -- Epilogue: no more shall the winding rivers be red: reconciliation and the passing of the loyal west.'The Loyal West' examines identity and memory among Union soldiers and veterans in the Lower Middle West, a previously overlooked region.BorderlandsOhio River ValleyHistory19th centuryReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Ohio River ValleyUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Social aspectsOhioHistory, Local19th centuryIndianaHistory, Local19th centuryIllinoisHistory, Local19th centuryOhio River ValleyHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Social aspectsElectronic books. BorderlandsHistoryReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)977.02Stanley Matthew E.1642277MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910807483503321The Loyal West3986879UNINA