LEADER 05081cam 2200553 i 4500001 on1407212898 003 OCoLC 005 20240430153638.0 008 231103s2024 laua b 001 0 eng 010 2023031569 020 9780807181409 020 0807181404 |qhardcover 020 |z9780807181881 |qelectronic book 020 |z9780807181874 |qelectronic book 035 (Sirsi) o1407212898 035 (OCoLC)1407212898 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dBDX |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us---n-usp-- 050 00 E661 |b.Z36 2024 082 00 973.8 |223/eng/20231103 100 1 Zander, Cecily N., |eauthor. |=^A1466303 245 14 The Army under fire : |bthe politics of antimilitarism in the Civil War era / |cCecily N. Zander. 246 30 Politics of antimilitarism in the Civil War era 264 1 Baton Rouge : |bLouisiana State University Press, |c[2024] 300 xii, 238 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Conflicting worlds: new dimensions of the American Civil War 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction: Westward the Course of Empire -- Interlude: The Cadet -- The Proslavery Empire of Jefferson Davis, 1852-1856 -- Interlude: The Runaway -- Republicans versus Regulars, 1854-1861 -- Interlude: The Senator -- The Republican War within the War, 1861-1865 -- Interlude: The Parade -- The Republican Army, 1865-1872 -- Interlude: The General -- Western Military Challenges, 1865-1872 -- Conclusion: Custer's Last Beer. 520 "Cecily Zander's "The Army under Fire" addresses two essential questions about the Civil War and its aftermath. First, what was the extent of anti-militarism in the Civil War era, and who were its proponents? Second, what consequences did political opposition to the professional army have on the war, Reconstruction, and postbellum western expansion? Zander suggests that the principal promotors of an anti-army ideology were the members of the Republican Party-the same men charged with overseeing the Union war effort between 1861 and 1865, as well as the military reconstruction of the nation in the decade that followed the collapse of the Confederacy. While scholars have long appreciated the Republican Party's anti-slavery roots, this study is the first to argue that anti-slavery attitudes developed in concert with a visceral anti-army ideology. Zander's work contains several historiographical interventions in the fields of Civil War history, nineteenth-century political history, and the history of the American West. She suggests that the Republican Party advanced an anti-army political philosophy in tandem with their anti-slavery ideology. Over almost two decades, they stalled legislation supporting the army, cut military funding, and reduced the institution's size. Zander's work counters narratives of accelerated western expansion supported by a more powerful army after the Civil War. She also advances a revised timeline for Reconstruction, suggesting that Republicans rapidly reduced their interest in supporting that policy in the South via military force between 1870 and 1872, which means the party's ideological commitment to the national reunification project ended four years earlier than the traditional date of 1876. Historians interested in the middle decades of the nineteenth century are likely to find "Republicans and Regulars in the Civil War Era" worthy of attention, especially scholars invested in the debates surrounding the chronological and geographic reframing of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Because of the notoriety of many of the work's most important characters-from Jefferson Davis and William Seward to Thaddeus Stevens and Zachariah Chandler, as well as William Tecumseh Sherman, Phillip Sheridan, and Ulysses S. Grant-general readers are also likely to be interested in this study"-- |cProvided by publisher. 610 20 Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |xInfluence. |=^A140596 610 10 United States. |bArmy |xHistory. |=^A38575 651 0 United States |xPolitics and government |y1861-1865. |=^A26290 651 0 United States |xPolitics and government |y1865-1877. |=^A26291 650 0 Militarism |zUnited States |xHistory |y19th century. |=^A150773 651 0 United States |xHistory, Military |y19th century. |=^A15589 651 0 West (U.S.) |xHistory, Military |y19th century. |=^A64753 651 0 United States |xHistory |yCivil War, 1861-1865 |xInfluence. |=^A15348 776 08 |iOnline version:Zander, Cecily N. |tArmy under fire |dBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2024 |z9780807181881 |w(DLC) 2023031570 830 0 Conflicting worlds. |=^A449147 949 Order on Demand |wASIS |hJOYNER219 960 |o1 |s50.00 |uJHIS |zUSD 961 |fDMD |m138099 596 1 998 6321603