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Defining Duty in the Civil War - Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front (Paperback)
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Defining Duty in the Civil War - Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two
competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict.
Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how
to be good citizens in a war that hit close to home but was fought
hundreds of miles away. They read novels, short stories, poems,
songs, editorials, and newspaper stories. They laughed at cartoons
and satirical essays. Their spirits were stirred in response to
recruiting broadsides and patriotic envelopes. This massive
cultural outpouring offered a path for ordinary Americans casting
around for direction. Examining the breadth of Northern popular
culture, J. Matthew Gallman offers a dramatic reconsideration of
how the Union's civilians understood the meaning of duty and
citizenship in wartime. Although a huge percentage of military-aged
men served in the Union army, a larger group chose to stay home,
even while they supported the war. This pathbreaking study
investigates how men and women, both white and black, understood
their roles in the People's Conflict. Wartime culture created
humorous and angry stereotypes ridiculing the nation's cowards,
crooks, and fools, while wrestling with the challenges faced by
ordinary Americans. Gallman shows how thousands of authors,
artists, and readers together created a new set of rules for
navigating life in a nation at war.
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