Contents
Series Introduction, ix
Introduction, xiii
About the Editor and Contributors, xxv
Chronology, xxvii
1
‘‘A Soldier’s Life Is a Hard One at Best’’: Soldiers in the American
Civil War, 1
John M. Sacher
2
When the Home Front Became a Battlefront: Civilians in Invaded
and Occupied Areas, 19
Antoinette G. van Zelm
3
War on Two Fronts: Women during the Civil War, 37
Lisa Tendrich Frank
4
Children and the Civil War, 59
Karen A. Kehoe
5
Patriotism, Preparation, and Reputation: Immigrants in Battle and
on the Home Front in the American Civil War, 77
Fiona Deans Halloran
6
From Enslaved to Liberators: African Americans and the Civil War, 95
Julie Holcomb
