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Moments of despair suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina / by Silkenat, David

Table of Contents: “…By his own hand : suicide -- Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south -- The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War -- The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought -- To loosen the bands of society : divorce -- The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white -- Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce -- The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south -- Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt -- Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina -- Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War -- What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south -- Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.…”
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At Lincoln's side John Hay's Civil War correspondence and selected writings / by Hay, John, 1838-1905

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Civil War correspondence -- pt. 2. Selected writings.…”
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Financial fraud and guerrilla violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 by Geiger, Mark W.

Table of Contents: “…Financial conspiracy -- New banks -- New bankers -- Insider lending -- The Unionists regain control -- Guerrillas -- The transformation of regional identity -- War and the administrative state.…”
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Sacred debts state Civil War claims and American federalism, 1861-1880 / by Sinisi, Kyle S., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Origins of the Civil War claims system -- Missouri's precedents and lobbyists -- Memory and claims in Kentucky -- Kansas and intergovernmental operations in the newly created state.…”
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The Louisiana scalawags politics, race, and terrorism during the Civil War and Reconstruction / by Wetta, Frank Joseph, 1942-

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Lincoln and Reconstruction by Rodrigue, John C.

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"What shall we do with the Negro?" Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America / by Escott, Paul D., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The North confronts the question -- War's proving ground -- Amnesty, apprenticeship, and the freedmen's future -- Politics, emancipation, and Black rights -- Slavery, war, and the slaveholder's mind -- Heresy, dogma, and the Confederate debate -- The Hampton Roads conference -- 1865 and beyond -- Appendix: a brief, additional note on a vast historiography.…”
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Zeb Vance North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader / by McKinney, Gordon B., 1943-

“…North Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865.…”
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Lincoln's resolute unionist Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott dissenter and Missouri's Civil War governor / by Boman, Dennis K.

Subjects: “…Unionists (United States Civil War) Missouri Biography.…”
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Becoming American under fire Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era / by Samito, Christian G.

Table of Contents: “…The crisis of citizenship in the 1850s -- The question of armed service -- African Americans in arms -- Equal rights and the experience of military justice for African American soldiers -- Irish Americans in arms -- African Americans and the call for rights -- The affirmation of naturalized citizenship in America -- The affirmation of naturalized citizenship abroad -- Epilogue: the legacy of national citizenship in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.…”
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Dispatches from Bermuda : the Civil War letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States consul at Bermuda, 1861-1888 / by Allen, Charles Maxwell

“…Civil War in the North…”
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The battles that made Abraham Lincoln how Lincoln mastered his enemies to win the Civil War, free the slaves, and preserve the Union / by Tagg, Larry

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A Connecticut yankee in Lincoln's cabinet : Navy Secretary Gideon Welles chronicles the Civil War /

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations.…”
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This distracted and anarchical people new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North /

“…North's Civil War…”
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Texas in the Confederacy an experiment in nation building / by Jewett, Clayton E.

“…Texas History Civil War, 1861-1865.…”
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Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln a relationship in language, politics, and memory / by Blight, David W.

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 African Americans.…”
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Lincoln's White House secretary the adventurous life of William O. Stoddard / by Stoddard, William Osborn, 1835-1925

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.…”
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Lincoln revisited new insights from the Lincoln Forum /

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.…”
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1863 Lincoln's pivotal year /

Table of Contents: “…Symonds -- Military drafts, civilian riots / Barnet Schecter -- The fiery furnace of affliction / Catherine Clinton -- And the war goes on / John F. Marszalek and Michael B. Ballard -- Picturing war / Bob Zeller -- The general tide / William C. …”
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Copperheads the rise and fall of Lincoln's opponents in the North / by Weber, Jennifer L., 1962-

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Protest movements.…”
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