Publication

2011 - University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia

Language

English

Word Count

57,250 words, Guess

Page Count

229 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100813931274
  • ISBN-100813931371
  • ISBN-139780813931272
  • ISBN-139780813931371
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010042973
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number671573381
  • Better World Books9780813931272
  • Better World Books9780813931371
  • Open LibraryOL25023034M

Classifications

  • DDC973.7/1
  • LCCE459 .S65 2011
  • LCCE459.S65 2011

Description

"Stoked by a series of major scandals, popular fears of corruption in the Civil War North provide a unique window into Northern culture in the Civil War era. In The enemy within, Michael Thomas Smith relates these scandals -- including those involving John C. Fr?mont's administration in Missouri, Benjamin Butler's in Louisiana, bounty jumping and recruitment fraud, controversial wartime innovations in the Treasury Department, government contracting, and the cotton trade -- to deeper anxieties"--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • A nation divided : studies in the Civil War era
  • Nation divided

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