The University of North Carolina Press

312 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 33 illus., 1 map, notes, index

Civil War America

Cloth

ISBN  978-0-8078-3275-2

Published: June 2009

Wars within a War

Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War

Edited By Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh

The twelve essays in Wars within a War explore the internal stresses that posed serious challenges to the viability of the opposing sides in the Civil War as well as some of the ways in which wartime disputes and cultural fissures carried over into the postwar years and beyond.

Comprised of contributions from leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant's imposing tomb, and Hollywood's long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative.

Reflecting a variety of approaches and methodologies, these essays provide a starting point for anyone interested in how Americans have argued about the prosecution, meaning, and memory of the war.

Contributors:

William Blair, The Pennsylvania State University

Stephen Cushman, University of Virginia

Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University

Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia

J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida

Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Harold Holzer, Metropolitan Museum of Art

James Marten, Marquette University

Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania

James M. McPherson, Princeton University

Carol Reardon, The Pennsylvania State University

Joan Waugh, University of California, Los Angeles

About the Author

Joan Waugh is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of the award-winning The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War.