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Sing Not War - The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (Paperback)
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Sing Not War - The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans
reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they
had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the
nineteenth century's ""Greatest Generation"" attempted to blend
back into society and how their experiences were treated by
nonveterans. Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time
reintegrating into their communities and returning to their
civilian lives than has been previously understood. Although Civil
War veterans were generally well taken care of during the Gilded
Age, Marten argues that veterans lost control of their legacies,
becoming best remembered as others wanted to remember them--for
their service in the war and their postwar political activities.
Marten finds that while southern veterans were venerated for their
service to the Confederacy, Union veterans often encountered
resentment and even outright hostility as they aged and made
greater demands on the public purse. Drawing on letters, diaries,
journals, memoirs, newspapers, and other sources, Sing Not War
illustrates that during the Gilded Age ""veteran"" conjured up
several conflicting images and invoked contradicting reactions.
Deeply researched and vividly narrated, Marten's book counters the
romanticized vision of the lives of Civil War veterans, bringing
forth new information about how white veterans were treated and how
they lived out their lives.
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