Voices Of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts Of Daily Life

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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eBook

2nd Edition 1st Edition

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Volume

Copyright

2011

ISBN13

9780313377419

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans fought one another with unparalleled ferocity over the future of the United States. Yet, during the same four years, Americans North and South went about the business of their everyday lives as best they could. How did they raise and feed their families, earn money, study, pray, and entertain themselves?
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Recent Titles in Voices of an Era.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Introduction: Civil War America and Reconstruction.
How to Evaluate Primary Documents.
Chronology of Events.
1: Politics.
2: Senator Stephen Douglas's Support of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854).
3: Reaction to Lincoln's First Inaugural Address in the Staunton (Virginia) Spectator (1861).
4: A “Disgrace to the American People”: The Illinois Legislature Denounces the Emancipation Proclamation (1863).
5: A Reaction to the Gettysburg Address in Harper's Weekly (1863).
6: “Election Day … the Most Momentous Since the Days of Washington”: Diary Entries by Union Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Lyman (1864).
7: The 14th Constitutional Amendment and the 15th Constitutional Amendment (1868, 1870).
8: Rutherford B. Hayes's Inaugural Address (1877).
9: Military Life.
10: “To Assist … in the Defense of Our Common Country”: David Pierson to William H. Pierson (April 22, 1861).
11: Hardtack and Coffee, or the Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887).
12: “Valiantly Did the Heroic Descendants of Africa Move Forward …”: Letter from Captain Elias D. Strunke (1863).
13: “I Will Commence Writing You a Letter”: Description of Life in Fredericksburg, Virginia (1863).
14: “The Balls Make a Very Loud Singing Noise When They Pass Near You …”: An Experience of Battle (1861).
15: “Our Dear Boys—Now as Ever—I Commit Them into Thy Hands”: A Confederate Woman Supports the War Effort (1862).
16: “We Now Are in Indian Country …”: Life Near a Reservation (1867-1868).
17: Economics.
18: “The Soil Is All the Best Quality …”: Results of the Homestead Act (1872).
19: The Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad: An Eyewitness Observance (1869).
20: “The Chin
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Voices Of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts Of Daily Life

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