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Children and Youth during the Civil War Era
James Marten
Marquette University, [email protected]
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Marten, James, "Children and Youth during the Civil War Era" (2012). Books by Marquette University Faculty. Book 75.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/marq_fac-book/75
Children and Youth
during the Civil War Era
ED I TED BY
James Marten
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Foreword
Steven Mintz
ix
Introduction
James Marten
1
PAR T I.
Children and the Sectional Conflict
11
1
"Waked Up to Feel": Defining Childhood, Debating Slavery
in Antebellum America
Rebecca de Schweinitz
13
2
"Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go": The Image
ofIdealized Childhood in the Slavery Debate, 1850-1870
Elizabeth Kuebler- Wolf
29
3 "What Is a Person Worth at Such a Time": New England
College Students, Sectionalism, and Secession
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
46
Children of War
63
4 A "Rebel to [His 1Govt. and to His Parents":
The Emancipation of Tommy Cave
Thomas F. Curran
65
5 Thrills for Children: The Youth's Companion, the Civil War,
and the Commercialization of American Youth
Paul B. Ringel
77
6 "Good Children Die Happy": Confronting Death during
the Civil War
Sean A. Scott
92
PAR T I I.
v
7
Children of the March: Confederate Girls and
Sherman's Home Front Campaign
Lisa Tendrich Frank
110
8
Love in Battle: The Meaning of Courtships in the
Civil War and Lost Cause
Victoria E. Ott
125
PART III.
9
Aftermaths
Caught in the Crossfire: African American Children and the
Ideological Battle for Education in Reconstruction Tennessee
Troy L. KickIer
10 "Free Ourselves, but Deprived of Our Children":
Freedchildren and Their Labor after the Civil War
143
145
160
Mary Niall Mitchell
11 Reconstructing Social Obligation: White Orphan Asylums
in Post-emancipation Richmond
173
Catherine A. Jones
12 Orphans and Indians: Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan
Schools and the Landscape of Postwar Childhood
188
Judith Geisberg
PART IV.
Epilogue
13 Preparing the Next Generation for Massive Resistance:
The Historical Pageantry of the Children of the
Confederacy, 1955-1965
207
209
f. Vincent Lowery
DOCUMENTS
vi
I
Through the Eyes of Civil War Children
225
Questions for Consideration
255
Suggested Readings
257
About the Contributors
261
Index
26 5
Contents