For many people, Pennsylvania's contribution to the Civil War
goes little beyond the battle of Gettysburg. The North in general
has received far less attention than the Confederacy in the
historiography of the Civil War--a weakness in the literature that
this book will help to address. The essays in this volume suggest a
few ways to reconsider the impact of the Civil War on Pennsylvania
and the way its memory remains alive even today.
Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War contains a wealth
of new information about Pennsylvania during the war years. For
instance, perhaps as many as 2,000 Pennsylvanians defected to the
Confederacy to fight for the Southern cause. And during the advance
of Lee's army in 1863, residents of the Gettysburg area gained a
reputation throughout North and South as a stingy people who wanted
to make money from the war rather than sacrifice for the Union. But
the state displayed loyalty as well and commitment to the cause of
freedom. Pittsburgh served as the site for one of the first public
monuments in the country dedicated to African Americans. Women of
the Commonwealth also contributed mightily through organizing
sanitary fairs or helping in ways that belied their roles as
keepers of the domestic world. And readers will learn from an
African American soldier's letters how blacks helped win their own
liberation.
As a whole, the ten essays contained in Making and Remaking
Pennsylvania's Civil War include courage on the battlefield but
reflect the current trends to understand the motivations of
soldiers and the impact of war on civilians, rather than focusing
solely on battles or leadership. The essays also employ
interdisciplinary techniques, as well as raise gender and racial
questions. They incorporate a more expansive time frame than the
four years of the conflict, by looking at not only the making of
the war--but also its remaking--or how a public revisits the past
to suit contemporary needs.
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