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    Jersey Blue
    Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854–1865

    William Gillette (Author)

    9780813526942

    Paperback / softback, published 1 March 1999

    408 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.626 kg

    Gilette has done Civil War studies in the North a service by exploring in great depth the interrelated political issues of slavery, expansion, unionism, and dissent. . . . [It's] the most comprehensive and penetrating study of New Jersey politics in the Civil War era.
    (Civil War History)

    This political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after invites us to rethink New Jersey's role and in particular its relationship to the border states. William Gillette argues that there is little evidence supporting the idea that New Jersey's residents were pro-southern before the war, or even antiwar during it, although attitudes toward the abolition of slavery were more ambivalent. The perspectives Gillette offers in Jersey Blue, from the recruiting ground, the battlefield, and the home front, cast new light on New Jersey's wartime activities, state identity, and our understanding of the interrelationships between New Jersey's national, regional, and state developments.

    Gillette takes a broader view of the politics of the Civil War as he touches on the economy, geography, demography, immigration, nativism, conscription, and law. The result is a pioneering history of New Jersey that deepens our understanding of the Civil War.

    1. Change and Continuity, 1854-1856
    2. Precarious Balance, 1857-1859
    3. Contests for the Presidential Nominations of 1860
    4. Party Paralysis and Unionist Consensus: The Election of 1860
    5. The Union in Peril: New Jerseyans React to Secession
    6. The Politics of Patriotism, 1861
    7. New Jerseyans Go to War
    8. Partisanship in Wartime, 1862
    9. The Perils of Power: Democratic Factionalism in Early 1863
    10. War Crises in 1863
    11. Preelection Skirmishing in Early 1864
    12. The Wounds of War: The Presidential Election of 1864
    13. Northern Triumph and National Tragedy
    14. The Fruits of Victory: The State Election of 1865
    Statistical Appendix / Lex Renda
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