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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
No place in America was left unaffected by the Civil War. Although some distance from the fighting, Boston too felt the triumphs and the tragedies of the Union cause. With patriotic fervor, the city and the state of Massachusetts contributed at least their fair share of soldiers to the Union armies, while businesses kept the cotton mills producing clothing and supplies for the Federals, and Irish Americans enlisted in droves. Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation, African American regiments were recruited, the first from Massachusetts. On the home front, women nursed wounded soldiers and did the work formerly done by men now at war. O'Connor (history, emeritus, Boston Coll.) follows the paths of all these groups in Boston throughout the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. With extensive notes and fine detail, he brings to focus the local struggles against the larger picture of a nation divided. Though this is a fine history, its appeal would be limited to libraries with extensive Civil War collections or those in the Massachusetts area.?Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
In this informative microcosmic study of a city during four crucial years, O'Connor (The Boston Irish, 1995) describes how the Civil War's battlefield upheavals were matched by quieter revolutions in metropolitan society, commerce, and politics. One part of O'Connor's narrative--the progress of the Hub's soldiers through four unexpected years of agony--is enlivened by excerpts from contemporary diaries and letters, but covers the same ground as regimental and Army of the Potomac histories. Fortunately, he also spotlights how four local groups, often at loggerheads in the antebellum period, rallied behind the Union after the attack on Fort Sumter. Yankee businessmen, once conservative, not only lent their financial support and civic influence to the mobilization effort, but joined former abolitionist foes like William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips in pressing Abraham Lincoln for emancipation. Women witnessed the end of their monopoly of the high-skill dressmaking trade, as a result of innovations such as the sewing machine, yet began shedding their professional subjection by becoming nurses and by lobbying for humanitarian causes, thus honing
No place in America was left unaffected by the Civil War. Although some distance from the fighting, Boston too felt the triumphs and the tragedies of the Union cause. With patriotic fervor, the city and the state of Massachusetts contributed at least their fair share of soldiers to the Union armies, while businesses kept the cotton mills producing clothing and supplies for the Federals, and Irish Americans enlisted in droves. Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation, African American regiments were recruited, the first from Massachusetts. On the home front, women nursed wounded soldiers and did the work formerly done by men now at war. O'Connor (history, emeritus, Boston Coll.) follows the paths of all these groups in Boston throughout the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. With extensive notes and fine detail, he brings to focus the local struggles against the larger picture of a nation divided. Though this is a fine history, its appeal would be limited to libraries with extensive Civil War collections or those in the Massachusetts area.?Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
In this informative microcosmic study of a city during four crucial years, O'Connor (The Boston Irish, 1995) describes how the Civil War's battlefield upheavals were matched by quieter revolutions in metropolitan society, commerce, and politics. One part of O'Connor's narrative--the progress of the Hub's soldiers through four unexpected years of agony--is enlivened by excerpts from contemporary diaries and letters, but covers the same ground as regimental and Army of the Potomac histories. Fortunately, he also spotlights how four local groups, often at loggerheads in the antebellum period, rallied behind the Union after the attack on Fort Sumter. Yankee businessmen, once conservative, not only lent their financial support and civic influence to the mobilization effort, but joined former abolitionist foes like William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips in pressing Abraham Lincoln for emancipation. Women witnessed the end of their monopoly of the high-skill dressmaking trade, as a result of innovations such as the sewing machine, yet began shedding their professional subjection by becoming nurses and by lobbying for humanitarian causes, thus honing