Caroline E. Janney, Remembering the Civil War, 1st Ed., Signed

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In Remembering the Civil War Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation – men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates – crafted and protected their memoires of the nation’s greatest conflict.

Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans, and most especially their respective women’s organizations, clung tenaciously to their own causes well into the twentieth century. She challenges the idea that white northerners and southerners salved their war wounds through shared ideas about race and shows that debates about slavery often proved to be among the most powerful obstacles to reconciliation.

Fine condition & in dust jacket. Signed bookplate pasted in.

Janney, Caroline E. REMEMBERING THE CIVIL WAR: REUNION AND THE LIMITS OF RECONCILIATION. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 1st edition, 451p., illustrations, dust jacket.