Civil War Congress and the creation of modern America : a revolution on the home front /
Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families w...
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Athens :
Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The home front in the Civil War / Paul Finkelman
- Conscription and the consolidation of federal power during the Civil War / Jennifer L. Weber
- To slip the surly bonds of states' rights and form a more perfect (financial) union : one legacy of the Thirty-Seventh Congress / Jenny Bourne
- Abraham Lincoln and "government girls" in wartime Washington / Daniel W. Stowell
- The Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862 : seedbed of the American system of public universities / Peter Wallenstein
- Military conflict on the Minnesota homefront : Lincoln's humanitarian concerns, political pressures, and the Dakota pardons / Paul Finkelman
- Behind the scenes: Abraham Lincoln's life in the White House / Jean H. Baker
- A national icon comes of age / Guy Gugliotta.