Congress and the people's contest : the conduct of the Civil War /
The American Civil War was the first ever to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment's notice. As a result, the young nation's political structure and culture often struggled to k...
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
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Table of Contents:
- Freedom and democracy in "the people's contest": a complicated role for Congress in a complicated war / Paul Finkelman
- A martyr, a speaker, and impending crisis: a prologue to the election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle
- "Shatter this accursed union": the fire-eaters in Congress in 1860 / Eric Walther
- "These Zouaves will never support us": cowardice, Congress and the First Battle of Bull Run / Lesley J. Gordon
- The summer of '62: Congress, slavery, and a revolution in Federal law / Paul Finkelman
- The radicals' war: how the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War tried to shape the course of the Civil War / Fergus M. Bordewich
- We are coming, Father Abraham, but how will you pay for us? / Jenny Bourne
- Why we fight: German American revolutionists confront slavery and secession / Mischa Honeck
- Make mine an abolition war: George Luther Stearns, Frederick Douglass, and the Black soldier / L. Diane Barnes
- Military emancipation before the Emancipation Proclamation: overcoming structural obstacles / Chandra Manning
- Negotiating Black manhood citizenship through Civil War volunteerism and patriotism: Cincinnati's Black Brigade / Nikki M. Taylor.
