Pennsylvania's Civil War

by Blair, William; Pencak, William

• ISBN13: 9780271020792
• ISBN10: 0271020792
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

For many people, Pennsylvania's contribution to the Civil War goes little beyond the battle of Gettysburg. The North in general has received far less attention than the Confederacy in the historiography of the Civil War -- a weakness in the literature that this book will help to address. The essays in this volume suggest ways to reconsider the impact of the Civil War on Pennsylvania and the way its memory remains alive even today.

Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War contains a wealth of new information about Pennsylvania during the war years. For instance, as many as 2,000 Pennsylvanians defected to the Confederacy to fight for the Southern cause. And during the advance of Lee's army in 1863, residents of the Gettysburg area gained a reputation throughout North and South as a stingy people who wanted to make money from the war rather than sacrifice for the Union. But the state also displayed loyalty and commitment to the cause of freedom. Pittsburgh served as the site for one of the first public monuments in the country dedicated to African Americans

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Keystone Confederates: Pennsylvanians Who Fought for Dixie	p. 1
Avenue of Dreams: Patriotism and the Spectator at Philadelphia's Great Central Sanitary Fair	p. 23
"We Were Enlisted for the War": Ladies' Aid Societies and the Politics of Women's Work During the Civil War	p. 59
"The World Will Little Note Nor Long Remember": Gender Analysis of Civilian Responses to the Battle of Gettysburg	p. 81
The Avery Monument: The Elevation of Race in Public Sculpture and the Republican Party	p. 103
The Civil War Letters of Quartermaster Sergeant John C. Brock, 43rd Regiment, United States Colored Troops	p. 141
Sites of Memory, Sites of Glory: African-American Grand Army of the Republic Posts in Pennsylvania	p. 165
"A Disgrace That Can Never be Washed Out": Gettysburg and the Lingering Stigma of 1863	p. 189
"Magnificence and Terrible Truthfulness": Peter F. Rothermel's The Battle of Gettysburg	p. 211
The Brothers' War: Gettysburg the Movie and American Memory	p. 245
Notes	p. 261
Contributors	p. 313
Index	p. 315
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