| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Canada and the United States

James Marten. The Children's Civil War. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 365. $34.95.

In the beginning of A Son of the Middle Border (1917), Hamlin Garland poignantly recalls his father's homecoming from the Civil War and observes: "My first impressions of life were martial," and "a large part of what I am is due to the impressions of these deeply passionate and poetic years" (p. 6). That was true for virtually all members of Garland's generation, both North and South, black as well as white, as James Marten makes compellingly evident in this study of childhood on the home front. . . .

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