The loyal west : Civil War and reunion in middle America /

'The Loyal West' examines identity and memory among Union soldiers and veterans in the Lower Middle West, a previously overlooked region.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stanley, Matthew E. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Ohio River Valley. Borderlands > Ohio River Valley > History > 19th century. Ohio River Valley > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects. Illinois > History, Local > 19th century. Indiana > History, Local > 19th century. Ohio > History, Local > 19th century. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9780252099175 0252099176
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the geography embodied: loyal westerners in war and peace
The progeny of Jamestown: racial construction and western identity on the Dixie frontier
The boundary between contending nations: border war and restraints on western unity
The war fattens on the blood of western men: the limits of practical abolitionism on slavery's western border
The great brotherhood of the west: the demise of the antebellum west and the construction of the loyal west
Was it for this you fought?: retreat from Reconstruction, the new white supremacy in the loyal west
Never checked
always victorious: the heyday of the loyal west
Solely to suppress the rebellion: commemorating conservative unionism in the loyal west
Epilogue: no more shall the winding rivers be red: reconciliation and the passing of the loyal west.

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