A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community

by Nicole Etcheson

Book Overview

For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community--Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction--and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700617973
• ISBN13: 9780700617975
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"