Introduction
1 "My thoughts are not here…": The Civil War Dance Floor as Multitemporal Place
James A. Davis
2 "But That’s the Old Wound, You See": Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War Poetry
Michael W. Schaefer
3 "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still": Imagining Women in the Confederate Minstrel Shows on Johnson’s Island, Ohio
Kirsten M. Schultz
4 "Do let me preserve the unities": The Stakes of Metaphor in Civil War-era Fiction
Rebecca Entel
5 "One of the most beautiful villages that ever were seen": Civil War Architecture
Megan Kate Nelson
6 "Dearest Sister, ‘Who Will Care for Mother Now?": Epistolary Songs of the Civil War Northern Home Front"
Sabra Statham
7 "No Partial Picture": Peter F. Rothermel’s The Battle of Gettysburg – Pickett’s Charge
Barbaranne E. M. Liakos
8 "You women folks has no business to be here anyhow": Romancing the War & Women in Civil War Memories on Stage
Bethany D. Holmstrom
Afterword: Artists and Soldiers
John R. Neff
Biography
James A. Davis is Professor of Musicology and Chair of the Music History Area at the School of Music, State University of New York at Fredonia, USA. His primary research focuses on the music and musicians of the American Civil War. He has also worked in the areas of music history pedagogy, American popular music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the history of bands.
