Call of duty american civil war2/22/2024 ![]() ![]() His research is phenomenal, his writing is engaging, and the reader is never left confused." -Matthew Bartlett, Gettysburg Chronicle I say that because this book handles some of the issues of the home front unlike any book I have read before. "I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the American Civil War. Well-researched and well-presented.”- Journal of American History came to understand their proper social roles in the ‘People’s Conflict’ through the print media. ![]() “A remarkable, complex, and confident exposition of a world at war, in which individuals found themselves caught between the complacencies of antebellum class, gender, and racial certainties and the challenges of a changed future, a world whose cultural echoes persisted well past 1865.”- American Historical Review Gallman is a shrewd historian.”- Civil War Monitor Gallman shows how thousands of authors, artists, and readers together created a new set of rules for navigating life in a nation at war. Wartime culture created humorous and angry stereotypes ridiculing the nation's cowards, crooks, and fools, while wrestling with the challenges faced by ordinary Americans. This pathbreaking study investigates how men and women, both white and black, understood their roles in the People's Conflict. ![]() Although a huge percentage of military-aged men served in the Union army, a larger group chose to stay home, even while they supported the war. Matthew Gallman offers a dramatic reconsideration of how the Union's civilians understood the meaning of duty and citizenship in wartime. ![]() This massive cultural outpouring offered a path for ordinary Americans casting around for direction.Įxamining the breadth of Northern popular culture, J. Their spirits were stirred in response to recruiting broadsides and patriotic envelopes. They laughed at cartoons and satirical essays. They read novels, short stories, poems, songs, editorials, and newspaper stories. Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how to be good citizens in a war that hit close to home but was fought hundreds of miles away. The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. ![]()
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