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With Malice Toward Some - Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era (Paperback)
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With Malice Toward Some - Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era (Paperback)
Series: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
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Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era
northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed
treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history,
the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty
varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly than federal
agents in punishing traitors in their midst, forcing the government
to rethink legal practices and definitions. In reconciling the
northern contempt for treachery with a demonstrable record of
judicial leniency toward the South, Blair illuminates the other
ways that northerners punished perceived traitors, including
confiscating slaves, arresting newspaper editors for expressions of
free speech, and limiting voting. Ultimately, punishment for
treason extended well beyond wartime and into the framework of
Reconstruction policies, including the construction of the
Fourteenth Amendment. Establishing how treason was defined not just
by the Lincoln administration, Congress, and the courts but also by
the general public, Blair reveals the surprising implications for
North and South alike.
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