TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Michael Thomas AU - Slap,Andrew L. ED - Project Muse. TI - This distracted and anarchical people: new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North SN - 9780823250288 AV - E468.9 .T457 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 1861-1865 KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North / Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith -- "A press that speaks its opinions frankly and openly and fearlessly": the contentious relationship between the Democratic press and the party in the antebellum North / Matthew Isham -- Abraham Lincoln, manhood, and nineteenth-century American political culture / Michael Thomas Smith -- Damnable treason or party organs? democratic secret societies in Pennsylvania / Robert M. Sandow -- Copperheads in Connecticut: a peace movement that imperiled the union / Matthew Warshauer -- "All manner of schemes and rascalities": the politics of promotion in the Union Army / Timothy J. Orr -- "For my part I dont care who is elected president": the Union Army and the elections of 1864 / Jonathan W. White -- New perspectives in Civil War ethnic history and their implications for twenty-first-century scholarship / Christian B. Keller -- The black flag and Confederate soldiers: total war from the bottom up? / Michael J. Bennett -- Liberia and the U.S. Civil War / Karen Fisher Younger -- "No regular marriage": African American veterans and marriage practices after emancipation / Andrew L. Slap -- "She is a member of the 23rd": Lucy Nichols and the community of the Civil War regiment / Barbara A. Gannon UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823250288/ ER -