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In the Wake of War - Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America (Paperback)
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In the Wake of War - Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America (Paperback)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military
occupation, inaugurating a tradition that persisted through the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that continues to
the present. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and even
professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the
unprecedented project of wartime and peacetime military occupation,
initiating a national debate about the changing nature of American
military practice that continued into Reconstruction. In the
Mexican-American War and the Civil War, citizen-soldiers confronted
the complicated challenges of invading, occupying, and subduing
hostile peoples and nations. Drawing on firsthand accounts from
soldiers in United States occupation forces, Andrew F. Lang shows
that many white volunteers equated their martial responsibilities
with those of standing armies, which were viewed as corrupting
institutions hostile to the republican military ethos. With the
advent of emancipation came the enlistment of African American
troops into Union armies, facilitating an extraordinary change in
how provisional soldiers interpreted military occupation. Black
soldiers, many of whom had been formerly enslaved, garrisoned
regions defeated by Union armies and embraced occupation as a tool
for destabilizing the South's long-standing racial hierarchy.
Ultimately, Lang argues, traditional fears about the army's role in
peacetime society, grounded in suspicions of standing military
forces and heated by a growing ambivalence about racial equality,
governed the trials of Reconstruction. Focusing on how U.S.
soldiers-white and black, volunteer and regular-enacted and
critiqued their unprecedented duties behind the lines during the
Civil War era, In the Wake of War reveals the dynamic, often
problematic conditions of military occupation.
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