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Indiana's War: The Civil War in Documents
- ISBN-10:
- 0821418475
- ISBN-13:
- 9780821418475
- Pub. Date:
- 09/15/2009
- Publisher:
- Ohio University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0821418475
- ISBN-13:
- 9780821418475
- Pub. Date:
- 09/15/2009
- Publisher:
- Ohio University Press
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Overview
Indiana's War is a primary source collection featuring the writings of Indiana's citizens during the Civil War era. Using private letters, official records, newspaper articles, and other original sources, the volume presents the varied experiences of Indiana's participants in the war both on the battlefield and on the home front. Starting in the 1850s, the documents show the sharp political divisions over issues such as slavery, race, and secession in Indiana, divisions that boiled over into extraordinary strife and violence in the state during the rebellion. This conflict touched all levels and members of society, including men, women, and children, whites and African Americans, native-born citizens and immigrants, farmers and city and town dwellers.
Collecting the writings of Indiana's peoples on a wide range of issues, chapters focus on the politics of race prior to the war, the secession crisis, war fever in 1861, the experiences of soldiers at the front, homefront hardships, political conflict between partisan foes and civil and military authorities, reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation, and antiwar dissent, violence, and conspiracy. Indiana's War is an excellent accompanying primary source text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the American Civil War. It documents the experiences of Indiana's citizens, from the African American soldier to the antiwar dissenter, from the prewar politician to the postwar veteran, from the battle-scarred soldier to the impoverished soldier's wife, all showing the harsh realities of the war.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780821418475 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
| Publication date: | 09/15/2009 |
| Series: | Civil War in the Great Interior |
| Edition description: | 1 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Richard F. Nation is an associate professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870.
Stephen E. Towne is an associate university archivist at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the editor of A Fierce, Wild Joy: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Edward J. Wood, 48th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xiii
Series Editors' Preface xv
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1 The Politics of Slavery 6
Escaping Slavery through Indiana 10
1852 African American Exclusion Vote 13
Indiana's Leading Abolitionist 15
Democratic Thoughts on the Compromise of 1850 17
The Nebraska Bill 18
The People's Parry 19
Dred Scott and Kansas 20
Bleeding Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution 22
The Split in the Democratic Party 23
Rights of Negroes in Indiana 24
John Brown 26
2 The Election of 1860 and Secession 27
Democrats Prepare a Racist Campaign 29
Democrats Split 30
Douglas Democrats 31
"They want to rule us because they won't trust us" 32
The Election of 1860 33
Secession as Bluster and Bluff 36
"The south is making a great to do" 36
A Politician Writes His Sons from Washington 37
Abolitionists as Dis-Unionists 39
An Attempt at Compromise 41
3 Choosing Sides, Making an Army 43
The War Begins 45
"I never saw such excitement in all my life" 46
Fort Sumter and the Call to Arms 47
Enforced Loyalty 48
The First Volunteers 49
The Early Trials of War 49
Sojourner Truth Visits Indiana in the Wake of the War's Start 52
Jesse Bright's Expulsion 53
Bright's Defense 54
Replacing Bright 55
"If the South can maintain its position all will be well" 56
Camp Life 57
Conscientious Objectors 58
A Union Democrat's Account of Draft in Hancock Country 59
Avoiding the Draft 61
4 The Front Lines 62
"Drunkenness is the great vice of soldiers" 64
Away from Home 65
"Boys, I want you to keep this" 68
"We had the satisfaction of seeing the elephant" 70
"No man need want to witness an execution" 71
FakedIllnesses to Obtain Medical Discharges 72
"The hospital is a hard place to be in" 73
Women at the Front 75
Caring for the Sick and Wounded 77
Prisoner of War 78
"Them dreadful days" 81
"Our motto is, 'death to traitors'" 82
Death 84
5 The Home Front 87
Hearts Separated 89
A Father's Grief 91
Running the Farm 93
"I do not know what he would do if it was not for his girls" 94
Support for Soldiers' Families 96
War and Madness 97
These Terrible Times 100
"Money is abundant" 101
Aiding the Freed Peoples 102
6 Race, Slavery, and the Emancipation Proclamation 104
"The new Revolution upon which we are embarked" 106
Aroused to a Solemn Duty 107
"The penalty of their crimes" 107
"The people of this county will never consent to receive such an immigration of negroes" 109
"The black wave of freed negroes is surging across the Ohio" 113
"I don't like old Abe's proclamation" 113
"1863 was the year of jubilee for two and a half millions of the human family" 116
"We can't whip the south without her negroes" 117
"The Idea of adopting the negro into the United States Service seems to be useless" 118
"Here is a wide field opened for good" 119
"Fly to my Country Call" 120
"White soldiers are more than friendly" 122
"Kill all, that's my doctrin" 123
7 The Battle to Control State Government 125
"Our people believe that secession meetings should not be tolerated" 127
"Indiana will loose sight of party in this hour and rally around good men" 128
"The democracy of Indiana are for prosecuting the war for the maintenance of the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws" 129
"Our only wonder is that we were not beaten worse" 130
Buell Is to Blame 132
The Streets of Indianapolis to Run with Blood 133
"The Loyal members of the Legislature have all gone home" 135
"We was ordered out one night to town to blow up the state house" 136
The Republicans Bolt Again 137
Military Punishment for Speech Considered Treasonous 138
"Forewarned is forearmed" 139
"Let me exhort the people to moderation and submission to the laws" 140
"Armed forces must be employed to crush the opposition" 143
"Our difficulties can soon be settled" 144
8 The Morgan Raid 146
"Rebels have invaded Indiana in considerable force" 148
"Wake up old Hoosier" 149
The Raiders in Salem 150
Morton Fights Martial Law 151
"I never expected to see such times as these here" 152
9 Dissent, Violence, and Conspiracy 155
"Burned by an incendiary" 159
"These abolitionists are indeed a pretty set of pimps" 160
"Arbitrary arrests for differences of opinion" 161
Violence against the Press 162
"If I should happen to be shot" 163
"It haint the inion they are after it is to break down the Constitution" 166
"Something should be done to show traitors in this locality that the law must be sustained" 167
"You cannot be aware of the full extent of the danger" 167
Draft Resistance 168
"Assembled and armed, for the purpose of inaugurating civil war in this community" 169
"Let no arms come to this county" 172
Secret Organization Uncovered 173
"The fact is well established" 177
An Unveiled Threat 179
"The condition of affairs in Indiana" 181
Startling Intelligence 183
"These facts will open the eyes of the people" 184
The Conspiracy Trials 185
Democrats in Trouble 188
The Presidential Ballot 189
10 War's End 190
Fort Wayne "Surrenders" 192
A Soldier on the Death of Lincoln 193
"Rebel leaders will get their dues" 194
A Poem on Lincoln's Death 196
Joy at Lincoln's Death 197
Postwar Mental Illness in Veterans 197
Ex parte Milligan 199
Change in the Economy and Society 204
Evansvilie Race Riot 204
Democratic Opposition to African American Equality 206
Assisting the Freed Peoples 206
Changes in African American Population 209
"At least they ought to be willing" 211
Democratic Reaction to the Fifteenth Amendment 211
Divided Communities 212
Timeline 215
Discussion Questions 231
Notes 235
Selected Bibliography 241
Index 245