Sing Not War

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered — or struggled to reenter — the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War , James Marten explores how the nineteenth century’s “Greatest Generation” attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by nonveterans. Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating into their communities and returning to their civilian lives than has been previously understood. Al