Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front (American Childhoods)

by JamesMarten (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $21.45

  How children living in the North experienced the Civil War, considered in the larger contexts of economic, political, and cultural developments during the nineteenth century. Mr. Marten opens a new window on the impact of the war and shows that the youngest Americans were inevitable and enthusiastic participants.