| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: the geography embodied: loyal westerners in war and peace -- The progeny of Jamestown: racial construction and western identity on the Dixie frontier -- The boundary between contending nations: border war and restraints on western unity -- The war fattens on the blood of western men: the limits of practical abolitionism on slavery's western border -- The great brotherhood of the west: the demise of the antebellum west and the construction of the loyal west -- Was it for this you fought?: retreat from Reconstruction, the new white supremacy in the loyal west -- Never checked -- always victorious: the heyday of the loyal west -- Solely to suppress the rebellion: commemorating conservative unionism in the loyal west -- Epilogue: no more shall the winding rivers be red: reconciliation and the passing of the loyal west |
| Summary |
'The Loyal West' examines identity and memory among Union soldiers and veterans in the Lower Middle West, a previously overlooked region |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2017) |
| Subject |
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Ohio River Valley
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Borderlands -- Ohio River Valley -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Borderlands
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Social aspects
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Illinois.
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Ohio River Valley -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
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Illinois -- History, Local -- 19th century
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Indiana -- History, Local -- 19th century
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Ohio -- History, Local -- 19th century
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
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Illinois
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Indiana
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Ohio
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Ohio River Valley
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Local history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016042772 |
| ISBN |
9780252099175 |
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0252099176 |
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