Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front during the Civil War

Contents

vii c o n t e n t s z Foreword: Civil War History Plows a New Field ix William C. Davis Acknowledgments xiii z The Great National Struggle in the Heart of the Union: An Introduction 1 Ginette Aley and J. L. Anderson Captivating Captives: An Excursion to Johnson’s Island Civil War Prison 16 Michael P. Gray “Ours Is the Harder Lot”: Student Patriotism at the University of Michigan during the Civil War 33 Julie A. Mujic The Agricultural Power of the Midwest during the Civil War 68 R. Douglas Hurt No Fit Wife: Soldiers’ Wives and Their In-Laws on the Indiana Home Front 97 Nicole Etcheson contents viii Inescapable Realities: Rural Midwestern Women and Families during the Civil War 125 Ginette Aley The Vacant Chair on the Farm: Soldier Husbands, Farm Wives, and the Iowa Home Front, 1861–65 148 J. L. Anderson Limiting Dissent in the Midwest: Ohio Republicans’ Attacks on the Democratic Press 169 Brett Barker z Contributors 191 Index 193 Gallery of illustrations follows page 96 ...