Civil War America Series by James Marten, Kenneth W. Noe, Jane E. Schultz, Judith Giesberg

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  • The Children's Civil War (Civil War America #1)
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    The Children's Civil War (Civil War America #1)

    James Marten

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 1998

    Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of freedom... more

  • Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861 (Civil War America #1)
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    Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861 (Civil War America #1)

    Kenneth W. Noe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2010

    After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were, why they joined, and why they stayed and fought... more

  • Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (Civil War America #1)
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    Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (Civil War America #1)

    Jane E. Schultz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2004

    As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront... more

  • Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (Civil War America #1)
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    Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (Civil War America #1)

    James Marten

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2011

    After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by non-veterans.Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating into their communities and returning to their civilian lives than has been previously understood... more

  • Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Civil War America #1)
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    Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Civil War America #1)

    Judith Giesberg

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2009

    Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers... more

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