Wars Within a War

by Waugh, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780807832752
• ISBN10: 0807832758
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

The twelve essays inWars within a Warexplore the internal stresses that posed serious challenges to the viability of the opposing sides in the Civil War as well as some of the ways in which wartime disputes and cultural fissures carried over into the postwar years and beyond.Comprised of contributions from leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant's imposing tomb, and Hollywood's long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative.Reflecting a variety of approaches and methodologies, these essays provide a starting point for anyone interested in how Americans have argued about the prosecution, meaning, and memory of the war.Contributors: William Blair, The Pennsylvania State University Stephen Cushman, University of Virginia Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Harold Holzer, Metropolitan Museum of Art James Marten, Marquette University Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania James M. McPherson, Princeton University Carol Reardon, The Pennsylvania State University Joan Waugh, University of California, Los Angeles

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Women Numberous and Armed Gender and the Politics of Subsistence in the Civil War South	p. 1
Friend or Foe Treason and the Second Confiscation Act	p. 27
My Enemies Are Crushed McClellan and Lincoln	p. 52
Profile in Leadership Generalship and Resistance in Robert E. Lee's First Month in Command of the Army of Northern Virginia	p. 68
In Your Hands That Musket Means Liberty African American Soldiers and the Battle of Olustee	p. 87
With Malice toward Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in Caricature	p. 109
Walt Whitman's Real Wars	p. 137
Hollywood Has It Both Ways The Rise, Fall, and Reappearance of the Lost Cause in American Film	p. 157
Battle over the Bodies Burying and Reburying the Civil War Dead, 1865-1871	p. 184
Not a Veteran in the Poorhouse Civil War Pensions and Soldiers' Homes	p. 202
William T. Sherman in Postwar Georgia's Collective Memory, 1864-1914	p. 223
The Nation's Greatest Hero Should Rest in the Nation's Greatest City	p. 249
Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 281
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