Won, but Not One: The Construction of Union Veteranhood, 1861-1917
Fifteen years following the end of the American Civil War, the identity of the Union veteran was in crisis. In 1879 Congress passed the Arrears Act, an immediately expensive pension bill that muddied the public's perception of veterans. Once considered heroes, the former soldiers of the Civil W...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77944 |