The War Went On (eBook)

Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans

Brian Matthew Jordan, Evan C. Rothera (Herausgeber)

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2020
353 Seiten
LSU Press (Verlag)
978-0-8071-7305-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered. Moreover, because work on veterans has often proceeded from a preoccupation with cultural memory, the Civil War's ex--soldiers have typically been analyzed as either symbols or producers of texts. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, fifteen of the field's top scholars provide a more nuanced and intimate look at the lives and experiences of these former soldiers.Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theater, political, and disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies. Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans, African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and ex--guerrilla fighters. They also consider postwar political elections, veterans' business dealings, and even literary contests between onetime enemies and among former comrades.

Autor

lt;p>Brian Matthew Jordan is assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University and the author of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War.

Evan C. Rothera is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
• Co-Autor: Rebecca Howard, Zachery Fry, Jonathan Neu, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Angela M. Riotto, Kurt Hackemer, Tyler Sperrazza, Steven E. Sodergren, Matthew Norman, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Kelly Mezurek, Adam H. Domby, Jonathan A. Noyalas
• Zusatzinfo: 1 table
• Verlagsort: Baton Rouge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: African American veterans • Amputees • Army of the Potomac • Borderland Studies • Captivity Narratives • confederate soldiers • Disability History • ex-pows • ex-prisoner of war • frank james • Grand Army Memorial Hall • Grand Army of the Republic • Guerrilla Verterns • Identity Studies • Lost Cause • Medical Photography • Memory Studies • Mexico • Midwest • pension fraud • PTSD • reconstruction • union soldiers • United States Colored Troops veterans • USCT veterans • veteran history • veteranhood • Veteran Studies • western frontier
• ISBN-10: 0-8071-7305-3 / 0807173053
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7305-3 / 9780807173053