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• W1987291272 abstract "368CIVIL WAR HISTORY centrists and conservative Republicans and those Democrats, on the other hand, who favored unbending opposition to Republican Reconstruction programs, especially to political participation by blacks. Gambill is at his best in showing why the former, whom he calls the accommodationists, were unsuccessful, first as the nervous allies of undependable President Andrew Johnson and then later when the split between Pendletonian inflationists in the Midwest and hard money Jacksonians in the East undercut party unity on the most important non-race-related issue of the period. Gambill ends his book with his single most arresting conclusion. He claims that the Democrats made a great political mistake in opposing black suffrage because the American people, by 1868, had decided to accept it. Their acceptance rendered the Democratic strategy of 1865-68 bankrupt and, by implication, cleared the way for the resurrection of the neo-Jacksonianism that Mushkat discusses in his book. While that conclusion has the virtue of initiating debate, this reviewer simply disagrees with its implications. For all the reasons Gambill brings out, it is difficult to see how the Democrats could have pursued an alternative path to the one they took and still have preserved themselves as a viable political party. Furthermore, the racist route proved very successful at the state and local level in 1867 all across the North, something Gambill treats lightly, and the Democracy almost captured the presidency only two years after the debacle of 1866. Gambill fails to point out that Seymour polled more white votes than Grant did in 1868, which hardly suggests bankruptcy among the constituents the Democrats were after. Despite the limitations of these two books, Gambill and Mushkat have succeeded in advancing our understanding of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. They have given us a better sense than we had before of what was going on within the party least comfortable with the tremendous social transformations that seemed to be under way, and therefore a more accurate assessment of the ideological misgivings and political reactions of significant portions of the American public. Jamks C. Mohr University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill: The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 18621864 . Edited by Mary D. Robertson. (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 235. $14.00.) Like Some Green Laurel: Letters of Margaret Johnson Erwin, 18211863 .By John Seymour Erwin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Pp. xxiii, 154. $9.95.) Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill: The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 18621864 ,is a significant contribution to literature concerning the Confed- BOOK REVIEWS369 erate homefront experience, the southern woman, and women's activities in Dixie during the Civil War. A portion of this material appeared in Civil War History in 1977, and its presentation in book-length form is well justified. Mary D. Robertson has done an excellent job of editing the Breckinridge manuscript and providing sufficient explanatory material while not intruding on the journal. Although Grove Hill was relatively untouched by war, the Breckinridge family felt its effects. Lucy's journal reflects this circumstance of fragile normalcy within a context of broader turbulence. She articulately describes household life and her views on matters from love to slavery, while recording also her sense of tragic loss at the death of her soldier brother, her terror at the presence of Union marauders in June 1864, and her depression in facing so cheerless a future. Through Lucy we experience the gloom and uncertainty of war, the loss of assuredness, and the growth of fatalistic pessimism. Nineteen years old in 1862, Lucy was a thoughtful, intelligent person who mentally challenged but did not openly defy social custom. Although her father owned many slaves, she privately declared herself a true abolitionist at heart. Considering wedlock nothing but suffering and hard work, she married (I will strive to do my duty) five months before her death from typhoid fever in June 1865. And, while resigning herself to the traditional lot of marriage and family, she opposed the attitudes which made this an assumed obligation for women. She wished women could fight in the war and thought them at least equal to men. Today, she would be a..." @default.
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