{"product_id":"across-the-divide-union-soldiers-view-the-northern-home-front","title":"Across the Divide: Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front","description":"Author: Steven J. Ramold\u003cbr\u003eCategory: Inicio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnion\nsoldiers left home in 1861 with expectations that the conflict would be short,\nthe purpose of the war was clear, and public support back home was universal.\nAs the war continued, however, Union soldiers began to perceive a great\ndifference between what they expected and what was actually occurring. Their\nfamily relationships were evolving, the purpose of the war was changing, and\ncivilians were questioning the leadership of the government and Army to the\npoint of debating whether the war should continue at all.\nSeparated\nfrom Northern civilians by a series of literal and figurative divides, Union\nsoldiers viewed the growing disparities between their own expectations and\nthose of their families at home with growing concern and alarm. Instead of\nsupport for the war, an extensive and oft-violent anti-war movement emerged.\nOften at odds with those at home and with limited means of communication to\ntheir homes at their disposal, soldiers used letters, newspaper editorials, and\npolitical statements to influence the actions and beliefs of their home\ncommunities. When communication failed, soldiers sometimes took extremist\npositions on the war, its conduct, and how civilian attitudes about the\nconflict should be shaped.\nIn this\nfirst study of the chasm between Union soldiers and northern civilians, Steven J.\nRamold reveals the wide array of factors that prevented the Union Army and the\ncivilians on whose behalf they were fighting from becoming a united front\nduring the Civil War. In Across the\nDivide, Ramold illustrates how the divided spheres of Civil War experience\ncreated social and political conflict far removed from the better-known\nbattlefields of the war.","brand":"Redrainforest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32433427873847,"sku":"9780814760376","price":22.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0258\/4664\/4791\/products\/across-the-divide.jpg?v=1608179608","url":"https:\/\/redrainforest.myshopify.com\/products\/across-the-divide-union-soldiers-view-the-northern-home-front","provider":"Redrainforest","version":"1.0","type":"link"}