Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America

by James Marten

Book Overview

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by nonveterans.

Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating into their communities and returning to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469622025
• ISBN13: 9781469622026
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"