Table of Contents
Introduction Lawrence A. Kreiser Randal Allred 1
Section I The Aftermath of Battle
1 "Really, Though, I'm Fine": Civil War Veterans and the Psychological Aftereffects of Killing Michael W. Schaefer 11
2 Traumatized Manhood: Confederate Amputees in History, Memory, and Hollywood Brian Craig Miller 25
Section II Reunions and Battlefield Preservation
3 Relics of Reunion: Souvenirs and Memory at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, 1889-1895 Daryl Black 47
4 The Graying of Gettysburg National Military Park: Race, Erasure, Ideology, and Iconography Robert E. Weir 61
5 Civil War Battlefields for Future Generations: The Relationship between Battlefield Preservation and Popular Culture Susan Chase Hall 83
Section III The Memory of the Civil War over Time
6 The Cultural Politics of Memory: Confederate Women and General William T. Sherman Jacqueline Glass Campbell 101
7 "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye": The Civil War Navies in Public Memory Matthew Eng 117
Section IV The Civil War in Fiction and Film
8 From History to Fiction: Abraham Lincoln's Most Famous Murder Trial and the Limits of Dramatic License Daniel W. Stowell 137
9 The War in Film: The Depiction of Combat in Glory Paul Haspel 153
Section V The Civil War as Entertainment
10 The War in Cardboard and Ink: Fifty Years of Civil War Board Games Alfred Wallace 175
11 "Oh, I'm a Good Ol' Rebel": Reenactment, Racism, and the Lost Cause Christopher Bates 191
Afterword: Untangling the Webs of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Popular Culture Imagination David Madden 223
Acknowledgments 237
List of Contributors 239
Index 243
