The War Went on: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans

by Sarah Handley-Cousins

In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807171980
• ISBN13: 9780807171981
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"