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100	1		_aGallagher, Gary W.
245	1	4	_aThe Union war _h[electronic resource] / _cGary W. Gallagher.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c2011.
300			_a215 p. : _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe grand review -- Union -- Emancipation -- The armies -- Affirmation.
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.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1861-1865.
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856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10678709 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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