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CIVIL WAR

AMERICA

Voices from the

Home Front

JAMES MARTEN

Santa Barbara, California

Denver, Colorado Oxford, England

Copyright © 2003 by James Alan Marten

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Marten, James Alan.

Civil War America : voices from the home front / James Marten.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 1-57607-237-1 (hardcover)—ISBN 1-85109-502-0 (e-book) 1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Social aspects. 2.

United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Personal narratives. I.

Title.

E468.9.M127 2003

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Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: “A People’s War” xi

PART I

Southern Civilians under Siege

1 The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin 3

2 Times to Try a Woman’s Soul 17

3 A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees 27

4 “A Species of Passionate Insanity”: Women of Vicksburg 41

5 Culture Clash: Invaders and Rebels in the Occupied South 53

6 A Lukewarm People: Home Front Dissenters in the Confederacy 65

7 “I Ain’t Ashamed of Nuthin”: Bill Arp Explains

the Confederate Home Front 75

PART II

Northern Society at War

8 George Templeton Strong and the Serious Job of Journalizing 87

9 Reporting the War: Civil War Journalism in the North 99

10 Literary Nurses: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman 113

11 Thinking Big: Love and Advice from Civil War Fathers 125

12 A Record of Munificence: Supporting the Troops 135

13 “The Bloody Week”: The New York City Draft Riots 147

vii

C o n t e n t s

PART III

The Children’s Civil War

14 Rabid Partisans among Their Playmates 161

15 What a Difference a War Makes:

A Northern Boy and a Southern Girl 171

16 Playing Soldier: Phip Flaxen and the Watermelon War 181

17 Oliver Optic’s Civil War: Northern Children

and the Literary War for the Union 193

PART IV

African Americans and the War

18 Havens and Hellholes:

Challenges and Opportunities in the Contraband Camps 209

19 Testing the Boundaries: Slave Lives in the Confederacy 223

20 Free to Learn: Educating Freedpeople 235

PART V

Aftermaths

21 “That Such a Thing Could Ever Happen”:

The Death of a President 253

22 Out at the Soldiers’ Home: Union Veterans 267

23 Children of the Battlefield: Soldiers’ Orphans 279

24 Up from Slavery: African Americans after the War 291

25 “True Soldiers of the Southern Cross”: Confederate Women and the Lost Cause 303

26 The Devil’s Civil War: The Stories of Ambrose Bierce 317

Bibliographical Essay 329

Index 335

viii

Acknowledgments

A number of graduate students funded by Marquette University have aided my research over the years, and some of it appeared in new forms in this volume, so I would first like to thank the research assistants who helped on those earlier projects: Henry Blanco, James Bohl, Annie Chenovick, Brian Faltinson, Jason Hostutler, Frank Keeler, and Patricia Richard. In addition, I want to thank Joan M.

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