Wisconsin in the Civil War: The Home Front and the Battle Front, 1861-1865 - Hardcover

Klement, Frank L.

 
9780870202865: Wisconsin in the Civil War: The Home Front and the Battle Front, 1861-1865

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This long-awaited study will appeal to students, researchers, and Civil War buffs no less than to the general reader. Well-written and engaging, it presents a vivid chronological narrative of Wisconsin's role in the pivotal event in American history, from the presidential election of 1860 to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the spring of 1865.
Despite partisan squabbling and the terrible human cost of the war, Wisconsin contributed her fair share and more to victory. By war's end, banking and commerce had revived and expanded; agriculture, mining, and lumbering flourished despite the labor shortage; manufacturing and the railroads were poised on the brink of tremendous postwar growth. In the span of less than twenty years, Wisconsin had evolved from its frontier origins to a mature, dynamic state of the restored Union.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Frank L. Klement was born in northeastern Wisconsin in 1905. He earned an undergraduate degree at the Wisconsin State Teachers' College in Stevens Point. He went on to earn a master's degree and a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the history faculty at Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1948, where he spent the balance of his career as a teacher and historian. Klement wrote nine books and more than 50 articles about the Civil War era. He retired from full-time teaching in 1975 but continued as an emeritus member of the Marquette University faculty until 1984. Klement died on July 29, 1994, shortly after putting the finishes on the manuscript for Wisconsin in the Civil War, his final book.



Frank L. Klement was late professor of history at Marquette University.

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