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This anthology grew out of the first two National Conferences on Music of the Civil War Era. Those conferences established an academic setting solely devoted to exploring the effects of the Civil War on music and musicians. Bridging musicology and history, these essays represent the forefront of scholarship in music of the Civil War era.

Takes a humanistic approach to the Civil War, revealing the more personal aspects of the struggle that focuses on the soldiers themselves. This book also looks at soldiers' racial views, illuminating their deepest worries about the war, and at community politics and problems of discipline surrounding this ideologically divided unit.

A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theatre until the final surrender of the war. This full-length study of the officer documents how, despite his meteoric military career, his accomplishments were underreported and often misrepresented in the historical record.