Introduction Maris A. Vinovskis 1. Have social historians lost the Civil war? some preliminary demographic speculations Maris A. Vinovskis 2. Community and war: the Civil war experience of two New Hampshire towns Thomas R. Kemp 3. The northern soldier and his community Reid Mitchell 4. Voluntarism in wartime: Philadelphia's great central fair J. Matthew Einhorn 5. The Civil war and municipal government in Chicago Robin L. Einhorn 6. Who joined the grand army? three case studies in the construction of Union veteranhood, 1866-1900 Stuart McConnell 7.'Such is the price we pay': American widows and the Civil war oension system Amy E. Holmes Index.
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