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Civil War History
A scholarly journal covering the period of the United States Civil War from antebellum America through Reconstruction. Articles address a variety of topics in social, cultural, economic, political, and military issues of the time. Academic audiences.
Articles from Vol. 45, No. 2, June
Local Autonomy and Civil War Draft Resistance: Holmes County, Ohio
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Among students of draft resistance during the Civil War, the idea that many draft resisters acted out of both loyalty to their local community and hostility to the centralizing forces of modernization has remained a largely untested prospect. The Holmes...
Pendleton Murrah and States Rights in Civil War Texas
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Secession in Texas, as in the rest of the Confederacy, made Southern rights and the embracing of separation the foundation of a new national loyalty. Confederation created a new political entity to which all Texans suddenly owed their allegiance. Since...
Preparing for the Prodigal Sons: The Development of the Union Desertion Policy during the Civil War
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In March 1864, nine men of the Georgia State Line from Lumpkin, Hall, and Marion Counties faced courts martial on the charge of desertion. They stood accused of leaving their camp at Resaca, Georgia, with the intent to desert to the enemy. In addition...
