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By James E. Potter

From a pool of slightly 9 thousand males of army age, Nebraska—still a territory on the time—sent greater than 3 thousand infantrymen to the Civil struggle. They fought and died for the Union reason, have been wounded, taken prisoner, and at times abandoned. yet Nebraska’s army contribution is just one a part of the extra advanced and fascinating tale that James E. Potter tells in Standing Firmly by means of the Flag, the 1st publication to completely discover Nebraska’s involvement within the Civil conflict and the war’s involvement in Nebraska’s evolution from territory to thirty-seventh kingdom on March 1, 1867.

Although far-off from the most important battlefronts and seats of the warring governments, Nebraskans have been conscious of the war’s matters and topic to its effects. nationwide debates concerning the origins of the uprising, the guidelines pursued to quell it, and what sort of state should still emerge as soon as it was once over echoed all through Nebraska. Potter explores the war’s impression on Nebraskans and indicates how, whilst Nebraska Territory sought admission to the Union at war’s finish, it was once stuck up in political struggles over Reconstruction, the destiny of the freed slaves, and the connection among the states and the federal government.

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