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They Fought the War Together: Southeastern Ohio's Soldiers and Their Families During the Civil War

Jones, Gregory R
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384347676

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2013, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of History.
Soldiers from southeastern Ohio and their families fought the Civil War (1861-1865) in a reciprocal relationship, sustaining one another throughout the course of the conflict. The soldiers needed support from their families at home. The families, likewise, relied upon the constant contact via letters for assurance that the soldiers were surviving and doing well in the ranks. This dissertation qualitatively examines the correspondence between soldiers and their families in southeastern Ohio, developing six major themes of analysis including early war patriotism, war at the front, war at home, political unrest at home, common religion, and the shared cost of the war. The source base for the project included over one thousand letters and over two hundred and fifty newspaper articles, all of which contribute to a sense of the mood of southeastern Ohioans as they struggled to fight the war together. The conclusions of the dissertation show that soldiers and their families developed a cooperative relationship throughout the war. This dissertation helps to provide a corrective to the overly romantic perspective on the Civil War that it was fought between divided families. Rather, Civil War soldiers and their families fought the war in shared suffering and in support of one another.
Leonne Hudson (Advisor)
Bradley Keefer (Committee Member)
John Jameson (Committee Member)
David Purcell (Committee Member)
Willie Harrell (Committee Member)
293 p.
American History; History; Military History
Civil War; Ohio; Southeastern Ohio; soldiers; Civil War soldiers; Union soldiers; civilians; northern civilians; northern home front; John Hunt Morgan; Morgans Raid; Athens Ohio; Marietta Ohio; Chillicothe, Ohio; Ohio Volunteer Infantry;

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  • Jones, G. R. (2013). They Fought the War Together: Southeastern Ohio's Soldiers and Their Families During the Civil War [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384347676

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jones, Gregory. They Fought the War Together: Southeastern Ohio's Soldiers and Their Families During the Civil War. 2013. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384347676.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jones, Gregory. "They Fought the War Together: Southeastern Ohio's Soldiers and Their Families During the Civil War." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384347676

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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