Three years ago, in celebration of the publication of The Union
Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State
Archives, the New York State Archives Partnership Trust, a program
of the New York State Education Department, held a two-day
symposium featuring research by leading scholars on New York's role
in the Civil War. The symposium brought together a broad spectrum
of attendees from the Lincoln Forum, Civil War re-enactors, Civil
War Roundtable members, students, local historians, educators, and
history enthusiasts. As the most populous state at the time of the
Civil War, New York was central to winning the war. The state not
only provided the most men and materiel, but was also the North's
economic center as well as an important center of political and
social activism. Inhabited by increasing numbers of immigrant
groups, abolitionists, and an emerging free black community, New
York's social and political environment was a microcosm of the
larger social and political conflict being played out in the war.
The symposium addressed these tensions by examining the role of
women, blacks, Native Americans, and European immigrant groups in
New York, particularly the various perspectives held by members of
each group regarding the war effort. The symposium examined the
difficulties Abraham Lincoln faced in keeping New York favorable to
his policies. It revealed the tremendous sacrifice New York made in
the military campaign, as well as the treatment of Confederate
soldiers at New York's Elmira Prison Camp. The State of the Union
is a compilation of the papers presented at the symposium. The
essays included in the volume: Housekeeping on Its Own Terms:
Abraham Lincoln in NewYork, by Harold Holzer The Volcano Under the
City: The Significance of Draft Rioting in New York City and State,
July 1863, by Iver Bernstein What's Gender Got to Do With It? New
York in the Age of the Civil War, by Lillian Serece Williams In the
Shadow of American Indian Removal: The Iroquois in the Civil War,
by Laurance M. Hauptman Above the Law: Abitrary Arrest, Habeas
Corpus, and the Freedom of the Press in New York, by Joseph M.
Bellacosa and Frank J. Williams New York's "Andersonville: " The
Elmira Military Prison, by Lonnie R. Speer The Continuing Conflict:
New York and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, by Hans Trefousse
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