Description
Book SynopsisFor all that has been written about the Civil War’s impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union’s Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community - Putnam County, Indiana.
Trade Review"With keen insight, Etcheson provides a thoughtful, rewarding, and essential contribution to the study of how the Civil War and Reconstruction changed the North. . . . A remarkable achievement, comprehensively researched and wonderfully readable."—Orville Vernon Burton, author The Age of Lincoln
Etcheson’s deep analysis of a Northern home-front community brings to life ordinary and extraordinary people as they responded to America’s greatest crisis."—James H. Madison, author of A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in American History
"This is remarkably engaging on a personal level, and, historically, a tour de force."—Douglas L. Wilson, author of Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Murder of Martha Mullinix
- Part 1: Before the War
- 1. A Northern Party
- 2. Appropriate Places
- 3. The Excluded Race
- Part 2: The War
- 4. The Copperheads
- 5. Their Own Corner
- 6. Shoulder-Strapped Negroes
- Part 3: After the War
- 7. Radicals and Conservatives
- 8. Pensioners
- 9. Exodusters
- Conclusion: The Monument Builder
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
