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Book SynopsisSituational and wartime constructions of "Patriotism" and "Loyalty" shaped American discourse and actions throughout the Civil War. While most scholarly work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on southern identity and Confederate nationhood, this volume examines the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the Civil War Era North.
Table of ContentsForeword by Gary W. Gallagher
Introduction
Robert M. Sandow
1. “Dedicated to the Proposition”: Principle, Consequence, and Duty to the Egalitarian Nation, 1848–1865
Melinda Lawson
2. Connecticut Copperhead Constitutionalism: A Study of Peace Democratic Political Ideology during the Civil War
Matthew Warshauer
3. “I Do Not Understand What the Term ‘Loyalty’ Means”: The Debate in Pennsylvania over Compensating Victims of Rebel Raids
Jonathan W. White
4. “We Are Setting the Terms Now”: Loyalty Rhetoric in Courtship
Julie A. Mujic
5. Loyal to the Union: College-Educated Soldiers, Military Leadership, Politics, and the Question of Loyalty
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
6. “Patriotism Will Save Neither You Nor Me”: William S. Plumer’s Defense of an Apolitical Pulpit
Sean A. Scott
7. “American Matrons and Daughters”: Sewing Women and Loyalty in Civil War Philadelphia
Judith Giesberg
8. “A Source of Mortification to All Truly Loyal Men”: Allegheny Arsenal’s Disloyal Worker Purge of 1863
Timothy J. Orr
9. “All of That Class That Infest N.Y.”: Perspectives on Irish American Loyalty and Patriotism in the Wake of the New York City Draft Riots
Ryan W. Keating
10. “Deeds of Our Own”: Loyalty, Soldier Rights, and Protest in Northern Regiments of the United States Colored Troops
Thaddeus Romansky
List of Contributors
Index
