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A fascinating study of the first modern war and its effect on American Culture.
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America Goes to War : The Civil War and Its Meaning in American Culture
author
:
Catton, Bruce.
publisher
:
Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0819560162
print isbn13
:
9780819560162
ebook isbn13
:
9780585370965
language
:
English
subject
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
publication date
:
1986
lcc
:
E468.C28 1986eb
ddc
:
973.7
subject
:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
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America Goes to War
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BY BRUCE CATTON
America Goes to War (1958)
This Hallowed Ground (1956)
Banners at Shenandoah (1955)
U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition (1954)
A Stillness at Appomattox (1953)
Glory Road (1952)
Mr. Lincoln's Army (1950)
War Lords of Washington (1948)
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America Goes to War
The Civil War and Its Meaning in American Culture
Bruce Catton
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Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1958, 1986, by William B. Catton All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 10
The illustrations have been reproduced from woodcuts and drawings by Edwin J. Meeker, Walton Taber, and W. D. Trego, all prepared for the "Century War Series" which appeared in book form in 1887 as Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, published by The Century Co., New York. Gardner and Brady photographs were used as the basis for several. Only the portrait of Grant has been in any way modified, and this but slightlyto permit its reproduction on the paper used for the present book.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Catton, Bruce, 18991978 America goes to war. p. illus. cm. 1. U.S. Hist.Civil War. I. Title. Full name: Charles Bruce Catton. E468.C28 973.7 58-13602 ISBN 0-8195-6016-2
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to Willard Wallace
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Contents
Introduction
11
The First Modern War
14
The Politics of War
28
The Citizen Soldier
48
Making Hard War
68
The Era of Suspicion
87
The General as President
106
The Heritage of Victory
122
Index
127
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Introduction
It is perfectly possible that we are spending a little too much time nowadays in talking about the American Civil War.
It compels our attention, to be sure. As an historical pageant it still has power to stir our emotions; as a fearful object lesson in the dire things that can happen when our political machinery breaks down, it continues to be worth detailed examination; as an example of the tragic price we have paid for an expanded ideal of the worth of human unity and freedom, it deserves all the attention we can give it. Yet we seem to be transforming it into a conversation piece. More and more it is being looked upon as a mine of source material from which booksbest-sellers, and otherwiseradio shows and television dramas can be made. It is becoming to us, what it never was to the people who had to take part in it, something romantic, a bright and colorful splash in the center of the slightly drab story of this country's nineteenth-century development. It is a museum piece, replete with old-fashioned flags, weapons, uniforms, and people, tinkling with sentimental little songs, set off by heroic attitudes, a strange and somehow attractive never-never land in which our unaccountable ancestors chose to live for four picturesque years.
It does no particular harm, to be sure, for us to look at it in
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that way, although a good many of the participants in the Civil War might well turn over restlessly in their graves if they could know what we are doing with it. The only real trouble is that in romanticizing the Civil War in this wayin looking on it as, essentially, something that we contrived in the high and far-off times for our own amusementwe are missing the real point of it. And the real point is a matter that we can very profitably meditate on for a time, because it still has a lesson for us.
For the Civil War is not a closed chapter in our dusty past. It is one of the great datum points in American history; a place from which we can properly measure the dimensions of almost everything that has happened to us since. With its lights and its shadows, its rights and its wrongs, its heroic highlights and its tragic overtonesit was not an ending but a beginning. It was not something that we painfully worked our way to, but something from which we made a fresh start. It opened an era instead of closing one; and it left us, finally, not with something completed, but with a bit of unfinished business which is of very lively concern today and which will continue to be of lively concern after all of us have been gathered to our fathers. Forget the swords-and-roses aspect, the deep sentimental implications, the gloss of romance; here was something to be studied, to be prayed over, and at last to be lived up to.
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