Free Download Matthew E. Stanley, "The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0252082249, 0252040732 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.2 mb
A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War-era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the mythology of the Loyal West-a myth rooted in regional and racial animosities and the belief that westerners had won the war.