Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our surveys. The other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous be,oquy to be or not to even if he confided that he liked another soliloquy better. Within the poetry of course is this gorgeous and a telling phrase, to sleep perchance to dream. There is the rub, for in the dreams mayath, what come when we have shuffled off this mortal c
Coming up next, a conference on the end of the civil war. Historians discussed the postwar political and cultural environment in the north. The virginia secretary organized this event. Our topic is the union cause in the war and in the framework of how americans remembered it from the wartime generation and later. Everybody is awake. Matt, john, and joan are our panel this time around. The first question i want us to talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. About is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. To begin, i would like all of you to discuss what loyal mea nt within the context of the u. S. Effort during the war. Joan i will start. One of the members of the audience came up to me and asked me to make sure there were more jokes in the session. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level, i think these concepts are very tied together, Union Loyalty and sacrifice, patriotism, nationalism. It meant loyalty or country, loyal to t
Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It meant loyal to your country to the country founded in the revolutionary war followed through by George Washington that is what northerners thought. To keep union hall and american exceptionalism was popular back then. I think we can look at the speeches of abraham lycan for that. The point is it was a country very well aware of the history and the importance of keeping that country together. Not just the confederacy which harkens back meaningfully to the revolution. The union is looking back to
Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It meant loyal to your country to the country founded in the revolutionary war followed through by George Washington that is what northerners thought. To keep union hall and american exceptionalism was popular back then. I think we can look at the speeches of abraham lycan for that. The point is it was a country very well aware of the history and the importance of keeping that country together. Not just the confederacy which harkens back meaningfully to the revolution. The union is looking back to
Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It meant loyal to your country to the country founded in the revolutionary war followed through by George Washington that is what northerners thought. To keep union hall and american exceptionalism was popular back then. I think we can look at the speeches of abraham lycan for that. The point is it was a country very well aware of the history and the importance of keeping that country together. Not just the confederacy which harkens back meaningfully to the revolution. The union is looking back to