| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. By James Marten. (Chicago: Dee, 2004. xx, 209 pp. $26.00, ISBN 1-56663-563-2.)
Recent advances in technology such as radio, television, and the Internet have brought the realities of modern warfare much closer to American children. None of these inventions was available to young people during America's Civil War, and in Children for the Union, the latest volume in the American Childhoods series, James Marten explores the many ways in which children in the Northern states learned about the great conflict that divided the nation.	1
For those boys and girls who had come of age in the peaceful climate of antebellum America, the Civil War created a burst of excitement that had a profound influence on their memories and their lives. In the weeks that followed the opening guns, children cheered regiments as they marched off to the front, visited training camps, waited outside telegraph offices to hear the latest news, attended military funerals, and took a prominent part in their towns' annual Fourth of July celebrations.	. . .

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