Essay - History the Civil War Veteran the Purpose of This Paper...

History

***** Civil War Veteran

***** purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "The Civil ***** Veteran: A His*****rical Reader" by edited ***** Larry M. Logue and *****ichael Barton. Specifically it will summarize and ***** the book, including the author's **********. The two ed*****ors of this book focus on the aftermath ***** the ***** War, especially on the veterans who fought in and survived the war. They write early in ***** *****, "[T]he ***** shared a profoundly important event, but the rest of their lives followed courses determined by a host ***** circumstances" (Logue and ***** 5). Thus, their thesis is the varied experiences of veterans after the war, something that ***** not often *****ed in most history textbooks.

This book covers the period directly ***** the war throughout Rec*****struction and beyond, ***** discusses the experiences of war veterans after the war, both black and white. It focuses on several key issues, including compensating the ***** after ***** war, how they coped with their experiences, (some became drug or alcohol abusers), and how society viewed the veterans. It also focuses on memory in at least some ***** the secti*****s, and sums up ***** memory by not*****g, "The fleeting character of memory demands the continuous creation and re-creation of a sense of ***** past; no enduring social ***** can be entirely static" (Logue and Barton 436). The book does evoke a sense ***** the past and ***** men who ***** in the Civil War, so in that, it does what it sets out to do. It ***** illustrates the difficulties that ***** have when ***** return from war, something that is often overlooked in most textbooks, and it indicates that memory is a very important part of any his*****ric occasion, and that memory must continue to alter as the event passes further in***** the past. This book helps keep the memory of those veterans alive, and so, it serves a vit*****l purpose for m***** Civil ***** historians ***** enthusiasts.

Perhaps ***** most compelling ***** ***** this book focuses on the ***** and ***** southern veterans trek home*****d after the war. As the losers, *****y faced violence and ridicule in Northern states, but all in all, the "Confederate dead were more powerful and awesome than ***** survivors of the war" (Logue ***** Barton 51). The ***** were those that ***** remembered and martyred in the South, and the ***** had to do just that - survive. ***** soldiers eventually got some kind of pension as a reward for their valor, ***** the South was in disarray, ***** Southern soldiers really did not gain anything for ***** valor. The reactions to ***** were difficult to read, because many ***** turned to drugs, alcohol, *****, and many suffered from *****tal problems. ***** is an area not ***** explored, and it made th***** book more interesting. ***** would have been nice if the editors had included even more essays ***** evaluations in this section of the *****, because it was