The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America PDF
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the loyal republic civil war america Peter S. Carmichael, Caroline E. Janney, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, editors This landmark series interprets broadly the history and culture of the Civil War era through the long nineteenth century and beyond. Drawing on diverse approaches and methods, the series publishes historical works that explore all aspects of the war, biographies of leading commanders, and tactical and campaign studies, along with select editions of primary sources. Together, these books shed new light on an era that remains central to our understanding of American and world history. the loyal republic traitors, slaves, and the remaking of c itizenship in civil war america Erik Mathisen The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill This book was published with the assistance of the Authors Fund of the University of North Carolina Press. © 2018 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Minion by codeMantra Manufactured in the United States of America. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Portions of Chapter 6 appeared previously in Erik Mathisen, “‘It Looks Much Like Abandoned Land’: Property and the Politics of Loyalty in Reconstruction Mississippi,” in After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South, ed. Bruce E. Baker and Brian Kelly (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013), 77–97. Reprinted with permission of the University Press of Florida. Cover photos: District of Columbia, Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln, ca. 1863–66 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division); Confederate POWs taking an oath of loyalty to the United States at the Rock Island Prison Barracks, ca. 1865 (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Mathisen, Erik, author. Title: The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America / by Erik Mathisen. Other titles: Civil War America (Series) Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] | Series: Civil War America | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017026943 | ISBN 9781469636320 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469636337 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Citizenship—United States—History—19th century. | Citizenship—Confederate States of America—History. | United States— History—Civil War, 1861–1865. | Allegiance. | Nation-state. | Freedmen— Civil rights—United States—History—19th century. Classification: LCC JK1759 .M39 2018 | DDC 973.7/1—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026943 For my parents and Joanna Cohen This page intentionally left blank contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 one A Government without Citizens 13 two The Rise and Fall of a Slaveholder’s Republic 38 three Schools of Citizenship 64 four Defining Loyalty in an Age of Emancipation 87 five Loyalty Under Fire 118 six It Looks Much Like Abandoned Land 145 Epilogue 167 Notes 177 Index 217 This page intentionally left blank illustrations Map of Mississippi 43 Gen. Lorenzo Thomas 107 African American soldiers 111 “A Proper Family Re-Union” 120 Schoolchildren pledging allegiance 174
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