View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.
aTogether, the essays collected by Logue and Barton provide a
vivid portrait of the social, political, economic, and cultural
struggles of Civil War veterans.a
--"The North Carolina Historical Review"
"A marvelous collection of essays, The Civil War Veteran
provides an indispensable introduction to the problems the veterans
faced and the contributions that they made. The bibliography alone
is an invaluable resource."
--Gaines M. Foster, author of "Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat,
the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South"
"Never before has such a wide-ranging and excellent collection
of readings on Civil War veterans been assembled in one place. A
must have book for anyone interested in this topic."
--Donald R. Shaffer, author of "After The Glory: The Struggles of
Black Civil War Veterans"
"An excellent collection of essays on a largely neglected topic.
. . . The editors have done a thorough job of considering the
pivotal issues, selecting broad yet focused themes, and gathering
the writings that best illustrate those issues and themes."
--Daniel Sutherland, University of Arkansas
The Civil War Veteran presents a profound but often troubling
story of the postwar experiences of Union and Confederate Civil War
veterans. Most ex-soldiers and their neighbors readjusted smoothly.
However, many arrived home with or developed serious problems;
poverty, drug and alcohol addiction, and other manifestations of
post traumatic stress syndrome, such as flashbacks and paranoia,
plagued these veterans. Black veterans in particular suffered a
particularly cruel fate: they fought with distinction and for
theirfreedom, but postwar racism obliterated recognition of their
wartime contributions.
Despite these hardships, veterans found some help from federal
and state governments, through the establishment of a national
pension system and soldiers' homes. Yet veterans did not passively
accept this assistance--some influenced and created policy in
public office, while others joined together in veterans'
organizations such as the Grand Army of the Republic to fight for
their rights and to shape the collective memory of the Civil War.
As the number of veterans from wars in the Middle East rapidly
increases, the stories in the pages of The Civil War Veteran give
us valuable perspective on the challenges of readjustment for
ex-soldiers and American society.
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