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Across the Divide - Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front (Hardcover)
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Across the Divide - Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front (Hardcover)
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Union soldiers left home in 1861 with expectations that the
conflict would be short, the purpose of the war was clear, and
public support back home was universal. As the war continued,
however, Union soldiers began to perceive a great difference
between what they expected and what was actually occurring. Their
family relationships were evolving, the purpose of the war was
changing, and civilians were questioning the leadership of the
government and Army to the point of debating whether the war should
continue at all. Separated from Northern civilians by a series of
literal and figurative divides, Union soldiers viewed the growing
disparities between their own expectations and those of their
families at home with growing concern and alarm. Instead of support
for the war, an extensive and oft-violent anti-war movement
emerged. Often at odds with those at home and with limited means of
communication to their homes at their disposal, soldiers used
letters, newspaper editorials, and political statements to
influence the actions and beliefs of their home communities. When
communication failed, soldiers sometimes took extremist positions
on the war, its conduct, and how civilian attitudes about the
conflict should be shaped. In this first study of the chasm between
Union soldiers and northern civilians, Steven J. Ramold reveals the
wide array of factors that prevented the Union Army and the
civilians on whose behalf they were fighting from becoming a united
front during the Civil War. In Across the Divide, Ramold
illustrates how the divided spheres of Civil War experience created
social and political conflict far removed from the better-known
battlefields of the war.
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