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13 - Urban and Rural America in the Civil War

from Part II - Social Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
Frank Towers
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Summary

This chapter examines the relationship between the Civil War and the development of cities in the mid-nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1880, America’s urban population rose from 3.57 million to 14.13 million, increasing the urban share of the total population from 15 to 28 percent. During those same decades, the nation split in half over slavery, fought a bloody civil war, and underwent a turbulent postwar Reconstruction. Although scholars have written about various aspects of the Civil War as they played out in cities, they have spent less attention on the intersection between urbanization and the war.

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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 264 - 284
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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