Claiming the Union : citizenship in the post-Civil War South /

This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners, male and female, elite and non-elite, white, black and American Indian, disagreed with the federal government over the obligations citizens owed to their nation and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lee, Susanna Michele, 1975-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:	Cambridge studies on the American South.
Subjects:	United States. > Commissioners of Claims. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Claims. Confiscations > Confederate States of America. Unionists (United States Civil War) > Reparations > Southern States. African Americans > Reparations > Southern States. Women > Reparations > Southern States. Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century. Compensation (Law) > United States. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Confiscations and contributions. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Moral and ethical aspects.

Table of Contents:

"We have fought the first skirmish": loyalty and citizenship
Men's Union: fixing the standard of a Union man
Women's Union: reckoning with the female Union man
Former slaves' Union: bestowing charity or rewarding loyalty
The colored Union: being all things to all men.