pt. 1. Transition to peace
By rail and boat / Dixon Wecter
Confederate demobilization / William B. Holberton
Did the Confederacy change Southern soldiers? / Michael Barton
Ghost dance / Gaines M. Foster
pt. 2. Problems of readjustment
The Civil War and the crime wave / Edith Abbott
Conventional wisdom versus reality / Eric H. Monkkonen
The veteran wins through / Dixon Wecter
Southern poor boys / R.B. Rosenburg
Opiate addiction as a consequence of the Civil War / David T. Courtwright
Exempt from the ordinary rules of life / James Marten
Post-traumatic stress / Eric T. Dean, Jr.
USCT veterans in post-Civil War North Carolina / Richard Reid
pt. 3. Governments provide aid
America's first social security system / Theda Skocpol
"I do not suppose Uncle Sam looks at the skin" / Donald R. Shaffer
Civil War pensions for native and foreign-born Union Army veterans / Peter Blanck and Chen Song
Establishing a federal entitlement / Patrick J. Kelly
Living monuments /R.B. Rosenburg
The fate of the Civil War veteran / Eric T. Dean, Jr.
pt. 4. Veterans fight their own battles
Veterans in politics / Mary R. Dearing
What sorts of men joined the Grand Army of the Republic? / Stuart C. McConnell
The reality of veterans' voting / Larry M. Logue
The Confederate celebration / Gaines M. Foster
A generation of defeat / David H. Donald
An activist minority / Larry M. Logue
Twice a child / R.B. Rosenburg
Collective resistance in soldiers' homes / Larry M. Logue
pt. 5. Veterans shape the collective memory
The patriotic boom / Stuart C. McConnell
A respect for Confederate history / Gaines M. Foster
Binding the wounds of war / Carol Reardon
Quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? / David W. Blight
Black veterans recall the Civil War / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.
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