Contested Loyalty (EPUB) von Robert M. Sandow

Foreword by Gary W. Gallagher

Introduction
Robert M. Sandow
1. “Dedicated to the Proposition”: Principle, Consequence, and Duty to the Egalitarian Nation, 1848–1865
Melinda Lawson
2. Connecticut Copperhead Constitutionalism: A Study of Peace Democratic Political Ideology during the Civil War
Matthew Warshauer
3. “I Do Not Understand What the Term ‘Loyalty’ Means”: The Debate in Pennsylvania over Compensating Victims of Rebel Raids
Jonathan W. White
4. “We Are Setting the Terms Now”: Loyalty Rhetoric in Courtship
Julie A. Mujic
5. Loyal to the Union: College-Educated Soldiers, Military Leadership, Politics, and the Question of Loyalty
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
6. “Patriotism Will Save Neither You Nor Me”: William S. Plumer’s Defense of an Apolitical Pulpit
Sean A. Scott
7. “American Matrons and Daughters”: Sewing Women and Loyalty in Civil War Philadelphia
Judith Giesberg
8. “A Source of Mortification to All Truly Loyal Men”: Allegheny Arsenal’s Disloyal Worker Purge of 1863
Timothy J. Orr
9. “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
10. “Deeds of Our Own”: Loyalty, Soldier Rights, and Protest in Northern Regiments of the United States Colored Troops
Thaddeus Romansky

List of Contributors
Index