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The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents the transformation from hostile sectionalism to sentimental reunion rhetoric. Northern culture created a notion of reconciliation that romanticized and feminized southern society. In tourist accounts, novels, minstrel shows, and popular magazines, northerners contributed to a mythic and nostalgic picture of the South that served to counter their anxieties regarding the breakdown of class and gender roles in Gilded Age America. Indeed, for many Yankees, the ultimate symbol of the reunion process, and one that served to reinforce Victorian values as well as northern hegemony, was the marriage of a northern man and a southern woman.Southern men also were represented as affirming traditional gender roles. As northern men wrestled with their nations increasingly global and aggressive foreign policy, the military virtues extolled in Confederate legend became more admired than reviled. By the 1890s, concludes Silber, northern whites had accepted not only a newly resplendent image of Dixie but also a sentimentalized view of postwar reunion.

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title:The Romance of Reunion : Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 Civil War America
author:Silber, Nina.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807821160
print isbn13:9780807821169
ebook isbn13:9780807864487
language:English
subjectReconstruction, Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century, Northeastern States--Civilization, Southern States--Civilization--Public opinion--History--19th century, Public opinion--Northeastern States--History--19th century.
publication date:1993
lcc:E668.S57 1993eb
ddc:973.8
subject:Reconstruction, Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century, Northeastern States--Civilization, Southern States--Civilization--Public opinion--History--19th century, Public opinion--Northeastern States--History--19th century.
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The Romance of Reunion
Page ii
CIVIL WAR AMERICA
GARY W. GALLAGHER,
EDITOR
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The Romance of Reunion
Northerners and the South, 1865-1900
Nina Silber
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS CHAPEL HILL & LONDON
Page iv
1993 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silber, Nina.
The romance of reunion: northerners and the South, 1865-1900 / by Nina Silber.
p. cm. (Civil War America)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2116-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Reconstruction. 2. Sectionalism (United States) History 19th century. 3. Northeastern States Civilization. 4. Southern States Civilization Public opinion History 19th century. 5. Public opinion Northeastern States History 19th century. I. Title. II. Series.
E668.S57 1994 93-18626
973.8 dc20Picture 2Picture 3CIP
97 96 95 94 93 5 4 3 2 1
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To my parents,
Irwin and Sylvia,
and to the memory of
Frances Hutchins
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
Chapter 1
Intemperate Men, Spiteful Women, and Jefferson Davis: Northern Views of the Defeated South
13
Chapter 2
A Reconstruction of the Heart: Reunion and Sentimentality during Southern Reconstruction
39
Chapter 3
Sick Yankees in Paradise: Northern Tourism in the Reconstructed South
66
Chapter 4
The Culture of Conciliation: A Moral Alternative in the Gilded Age
93
Chapter 5
Minstrels and Mountaineers: The Whitewashed Road to Reunion
124
Chapter 6
New Patriotism and New Men in the New South
159
Notes
197
Select Bibliography
225
Index
251

Page ix
Illustrations
"Gen. Lee Surrendering to Lieut. Gen. Grant"
21
"Jeff in Petticoats: A Song for the Times"
31
"The Head of the Confederacy on a New Base"
32
"Jefferson Davis as an Unprotected Female"
35
"Sketches at the White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia"
71
"Diven Rowing Us up Peter's Creek, Wed., April 26th, Fla."
84
"A Reminiscence of the White Sulphur Springs"
91
Jesse Coxey riding at the front of Coxey's Army
102
Promotional flyer for Held by the Enemy
114
Program cover for The Planter's Wife
115
Poster for Bearing's Decoration Day cycle races
170
Tableau depicting the reunion of Union and Confederate veterans in defense of "Little Cuba"
179
"The Blue and Gray Together"
184

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