More Than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era

[...] there are four fascinating articles on wartime memory: by William Blair on postwar debates in the North over treason; by Joan Waugh on the historical significance of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs and the process of their construction; by J. Matthew Gallman on two Philadelphia novelists, aski...

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Published in:Journal of Southern History 2009, Vol.75 (4), p.1066-1067
Main Author: Clarke, Frances M.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
American Civil War
American history
Anthologies
Essays
Marten, James
Nonfiction
War
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Summary:[...] there are four fascinating articles on wartime memory: by William Blair on postwar debates in the North over treason; by Joan Waugh on the historical significance of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs and the process of their construction; by J. Matthew Gallman on two Philadelphia novelists, asking whether they viewed the war as personally transformative (they did not); and by Gary W. Gallagher on the ways that former Confederate general Jubal A. Early, to use Gallagher's lovely turn of phrase, "worked tirelessly in the vineyards of Lost Cause advocacy" (p. 295). [...] there are also countless topics that could have made great additions, from the medical aspects of the war to the nature of wartime voluntarism.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893