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Book SynopsisUnion Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments explores the North's Civil War in ways that brings fresh perspectives to our knowledge of the way soldiers and civilians interacted in the Civil War North.
Trade Review"This provocative and stimulating collection is a rich and varied sample of the range of current research in the field. It should be savored by academic specialists and advanced graduate students." -The Historian "Cimbala and Miller have assembled a collection focusing on the "new identities" imposed upon veterans and non-combatants alike, during and after the war." -Journal of American Studies "This is as rich and rewarding a collection of essays on the Civil War home front as has ever been assembled. Respected experts offer thoughtful new looks at such provocative issues as wartime mobilization, religious revivalism, race relations, news reporting, and charity work. In the words to the title of one chapter, this is 'a different Civil War'-but one that has long deserved this level of insight and attention. This volume is essential for anyone who seeks to understand the home front North-mostly free of combat, but hardly immune from the society-altering impact of war." -- -Harold Holzer Vice-President for Communications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, author and editor of numerous books on the Civil War and on Lincoln.
