"Dedicated to the proposition" : principle, consequence, and duty to the egalitarian nation, 1848-1865 / Melinda Lawson -- Connecticut copperhead constitutionalism : a study of peace democratic political ideology during the war / Matthew Warshauer -- "I do not understand what the term 'loyalty' means" : the debate in Pennsylvania over compensating Victims of rebel raids / Jonathan W. White -- "We are setting the terms now" : loyalty rhetoric in courtship / Julie A. Mujic -- Loyal to the Union : college-educated soldiers, military leadership, politics, and the question of loyalty / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai -- "Patriotism will save neither you nor me" : William S. Plumer's defense of an apolitical pulpit / Sean A. Scott -- "American matrons and daughters" : sewing women and loyalty in civil war Philadelphia / Judith Giesberg -- "A source of mortification to all truly loyal men" : Allegheny arsenal's disloyal worker purge of 1863 / Timothy J. Orr -- "All of that class that infest N.Y." : perspectives on Irish American loyalty and patriotism in the wake of the New York City draft riots / Ryan W. Keating -- "Deeds of our own" : loyalty, soldier rights, and protest in northern regiments of the United States -- Colored troops / Thaddeus M. Romansky.
Summary:
"While most of the scholarly work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on Southern identity and Confederate nationhood, the essays in Contested Loyalty examine the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the North. Essays explore the limitations and incomplete nature of national loyalty and how disparate groups struggled to control its meaning. The authors move beyond the narrow partisan debate over Democratic dissent to examine other challenges to and competing interpretations of national loyalty"-- Provided by publisher.
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