Children and Youth during the Civil War Era
Children and Youth during the Civil War Era
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Abstract
The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, the experience of children and youth during that tumultuous time remains a relatively unexplored facet of the conflict. This book seeks a deeper investigation into the historical record by and giving voice and context to their struggles and victories during this critical period in American history. The chapters explore issues important to both the Civil War era and to the history of children and youth, including the experience of orphans, drummer boys, and young soldiers on the front lines, and even the impact of the war on the games children played. Each chapter places the history of children and youth in the context of the sectional conflict, while in turn shedding new light on the sectional conflict by viewing it through the lens of children and youth. The book touches on some of the most important historiographical issues with which historians of children and youth and of the Civil War home front have grappled over the last few years.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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Part I Children and the Sectional Conflict
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“Waked Up to Feel”: Defining Childhood, Debating Slavery in Antebellum America
Rebecca de Schweinitz
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2
“Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go”: The Image of Idealized Childhood in the Slavery Debate, 1850–1870
Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf
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3
“What Is a Person Worth at Such a Time”: New England College Students, Sectionalism, and Secession
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
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“Waked Up to Feel”: Defining Childhood, Debating Slavery in Antebellum America
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Part II Children of War
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A “Rebel to [His] Govt. and to His Parents”: The Emancipation of Tommy Cave
Thomas F. Curran
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5
Thrills for Children: The Youth’s Companion, the Civil War, and the Commercialization of American Youth
Paul B. Ringel
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6
“Good Children Die Happy”: Confronting Death during the Civil War
Sean A. Scott
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Children of the March: Confederate Girls and Sherman’s Home Front Campaign
Lisa Tendrich Frank
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Love in Battle: The Meaning of Courtships in the Civil War and Lost Cause
Victoria E. Ott
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A “Rebel to [His] Govt. and to His Parents”: The Emancipation of Tommy Cave
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Part III Aftermaths
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Caught in the Crossfire: African American Children and the Ideological Battle for Education in Reconstruction Tennessee
Troy L. Kickler
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10
“Free Ourselves, but Deprived of Our Children”: Freedchildren and Their Labor after the Civil War
Mary Niall Mitchell
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11
Reconstructing Social Obligation: White Orphan Asylums in Post-emancipation Richmond
Catherine A. Jones
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12
Orphans and Indians: Pennsylvania’s Soldiers’ Orphan Schools and the Landscape of Postwar Childhood
Judith Geisberg
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Caught in the Crossfire: African American Children and the Ideological Battle for Education in Reconstruction Tennessee
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Part IV Epilogue
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Documents: Through the Eyes of Civil War Children
- “I Hope by My Next Birthday We Will Have Peace in Our Land”: Carrie Berry Endures the Fall of Atlanta
- “A Strenuous and Tragic Affair”: Life on the Northern Home Front
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“The Threshold of a New Year”: High School Journalists Weigh In on the Civil War
- “Sports in the Days of the Sixties”: War and Play
- “De drums wus beatin’”: Caroline Richardson Meets the Yankees
- “A Momentous and Eventful Day”: Freedom Comes to Booker T. Washington
- “Born in the First Smoke of the Great Conflict”: Hamlin Garland’s Father Comes Home
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End Matter
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