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Item Civil War-Era Democrats and President Abraham Lincoln: Two Assessments of Loyal Opposition in Wartime(2019-07-29) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-A review essay of two recent books on political opposition in the North during the American Civil War finds historians have not adequately researched the Democratic opposition to the Lincoln administration. Historians must focus their attention on the words and actions of the rank-and-file membership of the Democratic Party to understand why they took violent measures to oppose the Republican government across the North.Item Emancipation in Indiana(2012-09-27) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item A Lesson for All Rebels at Home: The Holmes County, Ohio, Rebellion of 1863 Revisited(2019-09) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-The Holmes County, Ohio draft-enrollment-resistance episode during the Civil War is well known to historians, but has been poorly understood. Previous studies have characterized the violence as a minor eruption of ethnic localism. New research based on previously unseen archival records reveals a geographically widespread and organized uprising involving partisan Democrats that included many ethnicities. The United States Army and federal and state law-enforcement authorities worked diligently in the uprising's aftermath to deter similar outbreaks.Item The Persistent Nullifier: the Life of Civil War Conspirator Lambdin P. Milligan(2013-12) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item 'Soldiers are continually advised by letter to desert:' Finding Democratic Voices in the 1863 Campaign to Discourage Civil War Soldiers(University of Nebraska Press, 2024-09-21) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-In 1863, during the American Civil War, family members and acquaintances of federal soldiers from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois sent letters to those troops in an effort to persuade them to reject the war effort, desert, and return home. The letter writers frequently used racist arguments to encourage desertion. Receipt of these letters angered many soldiers, who sent them to hometown newspapers with requests that editors publish them in order to shame the writers. This article examines these letters, which represent a new body of evidence for studying the discourse of Democrats resident in Midwestern states.Item Unrest in the Midwest(2014-08-22) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-