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Description of  Contested Loyalty: Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North (The North's Civil War)

Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on flags, broadsides, and prints, was written into diaries and letters and the stationary they appeared on, and even found its way into sermons. Its ubiquity suggests that loyalty was an important conceptbut what did it mean to those who used it? Read more