From a pool of barely nine thousand men of military age,
Nebraska--still a territory at the time--sent more than three
thousand soldiers to the Civil War. They fought and died for the
Union cause, were wounded, taken prisoner, and in some cases
deserted. But Nebraska's military contribution is only one part of
the more complex and interesting story that James E. Potter tells
in "Standing Firmly by the Flag," the first book to fully explore
Nebraska's involvement in the Civil War and the war's involvement
in Nebraska's evolution from territory to thirty-seventh state on
March 1, 1867.
Although distant from the major battlefronts and seats of the
warring governments, Nebraskans were aware of the war's issues and
subject to its consequences. National debates about the origins of
the rebellion, the policies pursued to quell it, and what kind of
nation should emerge once it was over echoed throughout Nebraska.
Potter explores the war's impact on Nebraskans and shows how, when
Nebraska Territory sought admission to the Union at war's end, it
was caught up in political struggles over Reconstruction, the fate
of the freed slaves, and the relationship between the states and
the federal government.
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