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- W2092133253 abstract "Reviewed by: A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War by Ed. Brian Craig Miller Kathryn Shively Meier A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War. Ed. Brian Craig Miller. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60635-144-4, 224 pp., cloth, $45.00. Brian Craig Miller has compiled more than two hundred letters from Pvt. Silas W. Haven of the 27th Iowa Infantry, dated 1861–65. Haven’s regiment engaged in Indian negotiations in Minnesota and campaigns in Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. The private largely avoided combat, but there is much in his detailed letters to excite social historians and the popular audience of published soldier accounts. Haven lived in New England before settling in Iowa at age twenty-eight with his wife and children. He was an older enlistee, at age thirty-six, and his decision to leave home proved agonizing, pitting his commitment to family against principles of duty and honor. He was starkly clear, even in February 1862, that he hoped the war would deal a “death blow” to “slavery” (10). His ideological portrait is an important reminder of the need to dissociate soldier attitudes toward slavery from race. Though Haven deemed slavery a profound national sin, his callous, almost scientific observations of African Americans remained unchanged by those he met. Haven stereotyped “darkies” as “great on stealing,” and despite noting the high mortality rates of smallpox-infested contraband camps, he expressed no sympathy for the plights of their inhabitants (140). His contempt for slavery was instead grounded in Free Soil ideology. At war’s end, he imagined southerners would achieve “a prosperity never attained by them before … as they will enjoy the blessing of free labor” (179). Some of the most interesting letters depict noncombatants, such as Chippewa Indians, southern women, ailing refugees, and guerrillas (for whom Haven advocated execution without trial). Meanwhile, the portrait of his family in Iowa—involving a traumatic litany of his children’s illnesses—suggests the home front could be almost as deleterious to one’s health as war. Other topics include Haven’s two-year battle with diarrhea, the tedium of picket duty, his fascinating pursuit of natural relics, and his continual longing for a furlough. Miller has serviceably edited this collection. Yet so many of Haven’s letters resonate with recent social histories on environment, medicine, and manhood that more attention to social rather than military context would have been illuminating. The collection remains worth reading, however, because it provides a window into the universal common soldier experience—that of grinding illness and expansive tedium. Kathryn Shively Meier Virginia Commonwealth University Copyright © 2013 The Kent State University Press" @default.
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