Life in the North During The Civil War : A Source History

397 Pages Indexed. LIght green boards with black lettering and front cover decoration. Owner's name onf front endpaper. Interior is faultless and appears unread. Dust jacket is price clipped and edge wear and small tears less than 3/8 inch. Contents in Nine Chapters: The North in the Secession Crisis, Citizens as Soldiers, The Voice of Politics, The Negro's Place, The War and Northern Economy, Social Strains and Stresses, Ways of Life, Credos of the North, and Promises and Threats of Victory. Includes Notes and Illustration Sources. Illustrated throughout with drawings, cartoons, and advertisements of the day. Engulfed in the tides of discord and controversy stirred by war, life at home was its own kind of battlefield for the citizens of the North. In these records of the time, the feelings of the people are laid bare. This not a book of battlefield campaigns, this is the living record of ideological discord in the North from the Secession Crisis of 1860 to the beginning of the Reconstruction. Simple as the causes and issues of the Ameerican Civil War may seem to us, in the days when the war was being fought there was little agreement on any topic. By commentary and editorial selection, the authors present the panorama of the times in all its varied color. The people speak for themselves, in their own voices, and in each document there is the heightened intensity born in times of crisis not unlke present day events.…