Part 1 The coming of war: American modernization, 1800-1860 the antebellum south the ideological conflict over slavery Texas, Mexico, and the compromise of 1850 filibusters, fugitives, and nativists Kansas and the rise of the Republican party the deepening crisis, 1857-1859 the critical year, 1859-1860 secession and the coming of war. Part 2 The Civil War: a brother's war - the upper South mobilizing for war the balance sheet of war the war at home and abroad the springtime of Northern hope Jackson and Lee strike back slavery and the war - Northern politics, 1861-1862 the first turning point - Antietam and emancipation the winter of northern discontent the second turning point - Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga war issues and politics in 1863 behind the lines wartime reconstruction and the freedpeople military stalemate, 1864 the third turning point - the election of 1864 the end of the Confederacy. Part 3 Reconstruction: the problems of peace the origins of \"racial\" reconstruction reconstruction and the crisis of impeachment the first grant administration the southern question, 1869-1872 social and economic reconstruction the retreat from reconstruction the new South.

Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction

With its relentless bloodshed, devastating firepower, and large-scale battles often fought on impossible terrain, the Civil War was a terrifying experience for a volunteer army. Yet, as Earl Hess shows, Union soldiers found the wherewithal to endure such terrors for four long years and emerge victorious. A vivid reminder that the business of war is killing, Hess's study plunges us into the hellish realms of Civil War combat - a horrific experience crowded with brutalizing sights, sounds, smells, and textures. Drawing extensively upon the letters, diaries, and memoirs of Northern soldiers, Hess reveals their deepest fears and shocks, and also their sources of inner strength. By identifying recurrent themes found in these accounts, Hess constructs a multilayered view of the many ways in which these men coped with the challenges of battle. He shows how they were bolstered by belief in God and country, or simply by their sense of duty; and how they came to rely on the support of their comrades; and how they learned to muster self-control in order to persevere from one battle to the next.

The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat@@@For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

Acknowledgements Introduction: technology, history and growth Part I. Concepts and Preconceptions: 1. Labor scarcity and the problem of technological practice and progress in nineteenth-century America Part II. Generation: 2. Learning by doing and tariff protection: a reconsideration of the case of the ante-bellum United States cotton textile industry Addendum: estimated rates of labor equality change 3. The 'Horndal effect' in Lowell, 1834-56: a short-run learning curve for integrated cotton textile mills Part III. Diffusion: 4. The mechanization of reaping in the ante-bellum Midwest Addendum: threshold farm size 5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain Appendix A: technical notes Appendix B: source of the parameters and variables Part IV. Ramifications: 6. Transport innovations and economic growth: Professor Fogel on and off the rails References Index.

Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century

Lincoln and the economics of the American dream: The Whig Years, 1832-1854

Desertion and Loyalty in the South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865

The results of a demographic profile of age, occupation, and prewar residence of western Pennsylvania soldiers—created from enlistment and muster rolls, and examined at enlistment, at the end of 1863, and after re-enlistment—when placed within the context of individual soldiers' letters and the social history of western Pennsylvania, show that soldiers with rural backgrounds and poor occupations re-enlisted at higher rates than soldiers with urban backgrounds and better occupations. The reason for the difference lies in the greater opportunities available to civilians in the city.

John Robertson

Papers

Re-Enlistment Patterns of Civil War Soldiers