Draft Resistance and Rioting

Authors

Shannon Smith, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2012

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | History | Social History | United States History

Abstract

Book description:
As war raged on the battlefields of the Civil War, men and women all over the nation continued their daily routines. They celebrated holidays, ran households, wrote letters, read newspapers, joined unions, attended plays, and graduated from high school and college. Civil War America reveals how Americans, both Northern and Southern, lived during the Civil War—the ways they worked, expressed themselves artistically, organized their family lives, treated illness, and worshipped. The chapters in this book cover the war’s impact on the economy, the role of the federal government, labor, welfare and reform efforts, the Indian nations, universities, healthcare and medicine, news coverage, photography, and a host of other topics that flesh out the lives of ordinary Americans who just happened to be living through the biggest conflict in American history.

Comments

Find this book in a library

Accompanying primary documents available at Routledge.com: http://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/_author/morehouse-9780415896009/

Recommended Citation

Smith, Shannon. "Draft Resistance and Rioting." In Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Zoe Trodd and Maggi M. Morehouse, 3-12. New York: Routledge, 2012.