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02531aam a2200373 i 4500 001 5E1CFE62066511E4B09646AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140708010108 008 140114s2014 ncu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2013046758 020 $a 1469614057 (hardback) 020 $a 9781469614052 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)860943952 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E458.8 $b .B83 2014 100 1 $a Blair, William Alan. 245 10 $a With malice toward some : $b treason and loyalty in the Civil War era / $c William A. Blair. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c 2014. 300 $a 419 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 0 $a The Littlefield history of the Civil War era 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly than federal agents in punishing traitors in their midst, forcing the government to rethink legal practices and definitions. In reconciling the northern contempt for treachery with a demonstrable record of judicial leniency toward the South, Blair illuminates the other ways that northerners punished perceived traitors, including confiscating slaves, arresting newspaper editors for expressions of free speech, and limiting voting. Ultimately, punishment for treason extended well beyond wartime and into the framework of Reconstruction policies, including the construction of the Fourteenth Amendment. Establishing how treason was defined not just by the Lincoln administration, Congress, and the courts but also by the general public, Blair reveals the surprising implications for North and South alike"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a United States $x Collaborationists. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Collaborationists. 650 0 $a Traitors $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Treason $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 5 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217015749.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826093405.0 952 $l XRPC157 $d 20151107115257.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20150520011926.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20150304010822.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E1CFE62066511E4B09646AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search