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Part I. Hometown: 1. ’You are home folk’ - hometown and the middle class; 2. ’What will become of our town?’ - the rise and fall of the booster ethos, 1856–60; 3. ’Hard… and revolutionary times’ - the crisis of the middle class, 1858–61; 4. ’God bless the good old town’ - constructing trans-local communities in the 1850s; Part II. Battlefield: 5. ’It is all the talk in town’ - the booster ethos and struggle for Main Street, 1860–1; 6. ’Almost sacred and hallowed ground’ - civil war as spatial narrative; 7. ’The boys of 61’ - the social order of company and regiment; 8. ’The ’inner’ and ’outer’ man’ - encountering ’military ways and means’; 9. ’Civil war in our midst’ - waging war at home and abroad, 1862–5; Epilogue - ’scattering to the four ends of the Earth’ - ’the old town’ and the middle class.

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