Mark Hubbard

Illinois’s War: The Civil War in Documents - Civil War in the Great Interior Mark Hubbard

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes: "A notable book within an important series, Hubbard offers an indispensible volume for students of the Civil War and Midwestern history. Well-suited as a jumping off point for graduate students and serious researchers, "Illinois's War" will also appeal to undergraduates and buffs due to its readability." -- "Ohio Valley History"Review Quotes: "The best source of (Illinois Civil War) information is often found in the actual writings of the state's residents, from farmers and workers to freed blacks and runaway slaves. And these make up the bulk of the book with each chapter preceded by Hubbard's substantial introduction." -- "Book News"""Review Quotes: "The editor has done a splendid job assembling documents that tell the story of Illinois during the Civil War, and the volume will become one of the indispensable books on the Civil War in Illinois." -- Theodore Karamanski, Loyola University Chicago, author of "Rally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War"Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Illinois and the Politics of Slavery -- A Fugitive Slave Is Seized in Alton -- Mary Richardson Jones Recalls John Brown and the Underground Railroad -- The 1853 Black Exclusion Law -- The Address of the Colored State Convention -- Ichabod Codding Replies to Douglas -- Practical Abolitionism and Its Tendencies -- Chicago's Ferment: The 1855 Lager Beer Riot -- The Illinois American Party Platform -- The political atmosphere is such...that I fear to do any thing -- The 1856 Anti-Nebraska State Convention -- The Rise of Chicago -- 2. The Emergence of Lincoln and the Secession Crisis -- Slavery Blights the White Man -- A House Divided -- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- Illinois Reacts to John Brown -- The Ottawa Rescue Case -- The 1860 National Republican Convention -- Richard Yates Defines Republican Principles -- Illinois Responds to Secession -- Egypt Calls for Separate Statehood -- 3. Improvising War -- War is now begun -- There can be none but patriots and traitors -- The War Spirit in Chicago -- Gustave Koerner Describes Mobilization and Preparedness -- We have before us...a serious struggle -- The Ambiguities of Unionism -- Organizing the Chicago Sanitary Commission -- Jane Hoge on Women's War Efforts -- The Politics of Opposition: The 1862 Constitutional Convention -- 4. Illinois and Emancipation -- Lincoln Opposes General Fremont's Emancipation Order -- The Odyssey of Andrew Smith, Runaway Slave -- The conservative policy has utterly failed -- Too much protection has been given to rebel property -- The Emancipation Memorial -- The Cairo Contrabands -- There is a danger in the election here -- Illinois Reacts to the Emancipation Proclamation -- H. Ford Douglas and the Meaning of Freedom -- 5. Divided Houses -- The Peace Resolutions -- Illinois Soldiers Write to Their Newspapers -- Joseph Medill Warns of Resistance to the Draft -- Governor Yates Prorogues the State Legislature -- Arming the Resistance -- Divided Neighborhoods -- Mary Logan Defends a Contraband -- Of Promises Made and Promises Kept-The Conkling Letter -- 6. The Soldiers' War -- Your son is a soldier in America -- Colonel Ulysses S. Grant Describes His First March into Battle -- Now we began to realize the horrors of war -- General Pope Orders Hard Measures -- The troops are becoming very much disheartened -- I think there is reason to hope for better times -- George Carrington Witnesses the Fall of Vicksburg -- Equality we are fighting for -- The Twenty-Ninth U. S. Colored Infantry -- James Austin Connolly's March to the Sea -- 7. Hearts and Minds in the Days of Total War -- Dear Husband -- Another Civil War -- City Improvements -- The Northwest Sanitary Fair -- The Charleston Copperhead Riot -- Every thing seems to be going against us -- Reelecting Lincoln -- The Chicago Trades Assembly Announces Its Political Goals -- 8. In the Shadows of War -- Repealing the Black Laws -- John Wentworth Waves the Bloody Shirt -- There is almost no such thing as loyalty here -- Senator Trumbull Defends Congressional Reconstruction -- Resolutions of the Galesburg State Convention -- Seven Years among the Freedmen -- Congressman McNeely Opposes the Freedmen's Bureau -- The Illinois Woman Suffrage Association -- The Great Fire and the Boundaries of Charity -- Farmers and Railroads -- Cities of the Dead -- Timeline -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. Review Quotes: ""Illinois's War: The Civil War in Documents" is an insightful and strongly recommended addition to American history and Civil War collections." --"The Midwest Book Review"Review Quotes: "Through newspaper editorials, diaries, legislation, memoirs, letters, and public speeches, the reader is given a rich view of the ways Illinoisans shaped the war.... Together, the sources in this volume chronicle the numerous ways that war transformed life for Illinoisans.... This book stands on its own as a valuable resource for educators who want to introduce their students to the process of historical interpretation, as many of the documents are paired to offer contrasting viewpoints on an issue. It will also appeal more broadly to readers interested in Midwestern, gender, ethnic, labor, African American, and political history, and to anyone seeking better to understand the impact of the war on the Northern home front." -- "H-CivWar"Biographical Note: Mark Hubbard is a professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, and his book "Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War" was published in 2002. Publisher Marketing: On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union. Its history is, in many respects, the history of the Union writ large: its political leaders figured centrally in the war's origins, progress, and legacies; and its diverse residents made sacrifices and contributions--both on the battlefield and on the home front--that proved essential to Union victory. The documents in"""Illinois's War" reveal how the state and its people came to assume such a prominent role in this nation's greatest conflict. In these crucial decades Illinois experienced its astonishing rise from rural frontier to economic and political powerhouse. But also in these years Illinois was, like the nation itself, a "house divided" over the expansion of slavery, the place of blacks in society, and the policies of the federal government both during and after the Civil War. Illinois's War illuminates these conflicts in sharp relief, as well as the ways in which Illinoisans united in both saving the Union and transforming their state. Through the firsthand accounts of men and women who experienced these tumultuous decades, "Illinois's War "presents the dramatic story of the Prairie State's pivotal role in the sectional crisis, as well as the many ways in which the Civil War era altered the destiny of Illinois and its citizens. "Illinois's War "is the first book-length history of the state during the Civil War years since Victor Hicken's "Illinois in the Civil War, " first published in 1966. Mark Hubbard has compiled a rich collection of letters, editorials, speeches, organizational records, diaries, and memoirs from farmers and workers, men and women, free blacks and runaway slaves, native-born and foreign-born, common soldiers and decorated generals, state and nationally recognized political leaders. The book presents fresh details of Illinois's history during the Civil War era, and reflects the latest interpretations and evidence on the state's social and political development. Review Citations:

Choice 09/01/2013 (EAN 9780821420102, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Hubbard, Mark Mark Hubbard is a professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, and his book "Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War" was published in 2002.