Download PDF by Matthew E. Stanley: The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America

By Matthew E. Stanley

A loose area deeply stimulated by means of southern mores, the reduce center West represented a real cultural and political median in Civil War-era the United States. the following grew a Unionism steeped within the mythology of the unswerving West--a fable rooted in neighborhood and racial animosities and the idea that westerners had gained the struggle. Matthew E. Stanley's intimate research explores the Civil battle, Reconstruction, and sectional reunion during this bellwether sector. utilizing the lives of zone infantrymen and officials as a lens, Stanley finds a spot and a pressure of collective reminiscence that used to be anti-rebel, anti-eastern, and anti-black in its attitudes--one that got here to be on the vanguard of the northern retreat from Reconstruction and towards white reunion. The decrease heart West's include of black exclusion legislation, origination of the Copperhead circulate, backlash opposed to liberalizing conflict measures, and rejection of Reconstruction have been all pivotal to broader American politics. And the region's legacies of white supremacy--from racialized exertions violence to sunset cities to lynching--found malignant expression national, intersecting with how dependable Westerners remembered the war.

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