The Garrison War: Culture, Race, and the Problem of Military Occupation during the American Civil War Era

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dc.contributor.advisorBoles, John B.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGruber, Ira D.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMcDaniel, W. Caleben_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberStoll, Richard J.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGallagher, Gary Wen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberParrish, Michaelen_US
dc.creatorLang, Andrewen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-30T20:55:42Zen_US
dc.date.available2014-09-30T20:55:42Zen_US
dc.date.created2013-05en_US
dc.date.issued2013-04-18en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2013en_US
dc.date.updated2014-09-30T20:55:43Zen_US
dc.description.abstractFocusing on nineteenth-century American military occupation, this dissertation critically engages the existing literature on Civil War soldiers. It departs from the traditional historiographical paradigm of “why they fought and endured”—based on motivation and the experience of active combat—and instead emphasizes how the soldiering experience was fragmented and fraught with disillusionment and confusion. The Civil War traditionally is interpreted as period-divide between the antebellum and post-bellum eras. Soldiers’ responses to the culture of military occupation, however, revealed striking continuity across time, space, and conflict in nineteenth-century America. By uniting three principal events—the Mexican-American War, Civil War, and post-bellum Reconstruction—the study interprets how nineteenth-century volunteer citizen-soldiers struggled to understand their roles as occupying forces. As occupation emerged as a fundamental staple of the American military tradition, its complexities challenged the cultural ideals that fueled the citizen-soldier model. The milieu of occupation thus contested American soldiers’ integrity, masculinity, and racial identity. The citizen-soldier tradition collided with an equally aggressive, and oftentimes incompatible, force: the garrison ethos. Volunteer soldiers confronted the principal tenets of military occupation—securing, holding, and guarding territory; enforcing government policies; regulating and defining the limits of civilian-combatants; policing cities and towns; and battling guerrillas—viewing them as trials against the citizen-soldier ideal, which they had intended to fulfill.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationLang, Andrew. "The Garrison War: Culture, Race, and the Problem of Military Occupation during the American Civil War Era." (2013) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/77342">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/77342</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.slug123456789/ETD-2013-05-515en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/77342en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectGarrisonsen_US
dc.subjectUnion Soldiersen_US
dc.subjectAfrican American soldiersen_US
dc.subjectUSCTen_US
dc.subjectEmancipationen_US
dc.subjectReconstructionen_US
dc.subjectMexican-American Waren_US
dc.subjectOccupationen_US
dc.subjectMilitary Occupationen_US
dc.subjectCivil War, 1861-1865en_US
dc.titleThe Garrison War: Culture, Race, and the Problem of Military Occupation during the American Civil War Eraen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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