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The Union War (Paperback)
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Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil
War-by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by 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 brilliant 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.
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