Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors to Volume III
- Note on the Text
- Part I Values
- Part II Social Experience
- 6 Families in the Civil War
- 7 Refugees and Movement in the Civil War
- 8 Citizen Soldiers
- 9 Immigrant America and the Civil War
- 10 Emancipation and War
- 11 The Black Military Experience
- 12 Motives and Morale
- 13 Urban and Rural America in the Civil War
- Part III Outcomes
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
13 - Urban and Rural America in the Civil War
from Part II - Social Experience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2019
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors to Volume III
- Note on the Text
- Part I Values
- Part II Social Experience
- 6 Families in the Civil War
- 7 Refugees and Movement in the Civil War
- 8 Citizen Soldiers
- 9 Immigrant America and the Civil War
- 10 Emancipation and War
- 11 The Black Military Experience
- 12 Motives and Morale
- 13 Urban and Rural America in the Civil War
- Part III Outcomes
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the relationship between the Civil War and the development of cities in the mid-nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1880, America’s urban population rose from 3.57 million to 14.13 million, increasing the urban share of the total population from 15 to 28 percent. During those same decades, the nation split in half over slavery, fought a bloody civil war, and underwent a turbulent postwar Reconstruction. Although scholars have written about various aspects of the Civil War as they played out in cities, they have spent less attention on the intersection between urbanization and the war.
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- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 264 - 284Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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