The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments, ix Introduction, 1 1. Popular Literary Culture in Wartime, 17 2. The Early Spirit of War, 61 3. The Sentimental Soldier, 93 4. The Feminized War, 120 5. Kingdom Coming: The Emancipation of Popular Literature, 150 6. The Humor of War, 195 7. The Sensational War, 225 8. A Boys’ and Girls’ War, 256 9. The Market Value of Memory: Histories of the War, 287 Epilogue, 311 Notes, 319 Bibliography, 365 Index, 393 illustrations The first Southern Illustrated News 32 Union envelopes 45 Winslow Homer’s Life in Camp cards 58 The game of ‘‘Visit to Camp’’ 59 Elmer E. Ellsworth envelopes 85 The Soldier’s Grave 97 ‘‘The Dying Confederate’s Last Words’’ 104 The Soldier’s Dream of Home 107 ‘‘Barbara Frietchie’’ 125 ‘‘Scene, Fifth Avenue’’ 126 ‘‘We’ll Go Down Ourselves’’ 127 Winslow Homer, ‘‘News from the War’’ 139 Contraband envelopes 153 ‘‘Cuffee’s War Song’’ 155 ‘‘Scene in the Parlor of Mr. Barnwell’s House at Beaufort, South Carolina’’ 157 Robert Smalls 163 ‘‘Emancipation Day in South Carolina’’ 167 ‘‘Babylon Is Fallen!’’ 170 ‘‘A Typical Negro’’ 171 Stephens’s Album Cards 172 The Colored Volunteer 177 ‘‘One Good Turn Deserves Another’’ 182 The Phunny Phellow 197 Southern Punch 198 Sojers’ Comic Almanac for 1863 199 Comic valentine 200 ‘‘Grafted into the Army’’ 203 ‘‘Happy Contraband’’ 216 Pauline of the Potomac 242 Maud of the Mississippi 243 Castine 254 ‘‘The Drummer Boy of Shiloh’’ 261 The Little Volunteer 265 Boys and Girls Stories of the War 284 ...