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001403936 24514 $$aThe Union war$$h[electronic resource] /$$cGary W. Gallagher.
001403936 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2011.
001403936 300__ $$a1 online resource (215 p.) :$$bill.
001403936 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001403936 5050_ $$aThe grand review -- Union -- Emancipation -- The armies -- Affirmation.
001403936 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001403936 520__ $$aEven one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War--by its division, its bloodshed, and its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, Gallagher demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union. Devotion to the Union bonded nineteenth-century Americans in the North and West against a slaveholding aristocracy in the South and a Europe that seemed destined for oligarchy. Northerners believed they were fighting to save the republic, and with it the world's best hope for democracy. Once we understand the centrality of union, we can in turn appreciate the force that made northern victory possible: the citizen-soldier. Gallagher reveals how the massive volunteer army of the North fought to confirm American exceptionalism by salvaging the Union. Contemporary concerns have distorted the reality of nineteenth-century Americans, who embraced emancipation primarily to punish secessionists and remove slavery as a future threat to union-goals that emerged in the process of war. As Gallagher recovers why and how the Civil War was fought, we gain a more honest understanding of why and how it was won--From book jacket.
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001403936 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$yCivil War, 1861-1865.
001403936 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xPolitics and government$$y1861-1865.
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