LEADER 03677nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910959785003321 005 20250423101304.0 010 $a9780674060968 010 $a0674060962 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674060968 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039426 035 $a(EBL)3301278 035 $a(OCoLC)835787912 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001481194 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11803744 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481194 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11497560 035 $a(PQKB)10327283 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860920 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11530978 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860920 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10913885 035 $a(PQKB)11445932 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301278 035 $a(OCoLC)908447870 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42108 035 $a(DE-B1597)178228 035 $a(OCoLC)979621383 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674060968 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2041900 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301278 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678709 035 $a(Perlego)1147299 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039426 100 $a20101217d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Union war /$fGary W. Gallagher 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780674045620 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe grand review -- Union -- Emancipation -- The armies -- Affirmation. 330 $aEven one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War--by its division, its bloodshed, and its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, Gallagher demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union. Devotion to the Union bonded nineteenth-century Americans in the North and West against a slaveholding aristocracy in the South and a Europe that seemed destined for oligarchy. Northerners believed they were fighting to save the republic, and with it the world's best hope for democracy. Once we understand the centrality of union, we can in turn appreciate the force that made northern victory possible: the citizen-soldier. Gallagher reveals how the massive volunteer army of the North fought to confirm American exceptionalism by salvaging the Union. Contemporary concerns have distorted the reality of nineteenth-century Americans, who embraced emancipation primarily to punish secessionists and remove slavery as a future threat to union-goals that emerged in the process of war. As Gallagher recovers why and how the Civil War was fought, we gain a more honest understanding of why and how it was won--From book jacket. 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1861-1865 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 676 $a973.7 686 $aNP 6020$2rvk 700 $aGallagher$b Gary W$01807032 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959785003321 996 $aThe Union war$94365915 997 $aUNINA