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This Infernal War
The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard
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Artikel-Nr:
9781606353356
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.02.2018
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Timothy Mason Roberts
Gewicht:
726 g
Format:
241x165x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Timothy Mason Roberts is professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb, about thirty miles from the Standards' Civil War home. A teacher and scholar of antebellum and Civil War-era America and the role of America in the world, he is the author of Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism and coeditor of American Exceptionalism (4 volumes).
Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families. The Standards of Lewiston in Fulton County, Illinois, were antiwar Copperheads. Their attitudes toward Abraham Lincoln, "Black Republicans," and especially African Americans are, frankly, troubling to modern readers. Scholars who argue that the bulk of Union soldiers left their families and went to war to champion republican government or to wipe out slavery will have to account for this couple's rejection of the war's ideals.