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To Regard Each Other As Of One Common Family equality became synonymous during this time. More importantly, egalitarianism in the military realm originated in the growing emphasis on egalitarianism for the citizenry, “the people at large,” who believed that opportunity - as with military leadership - should be defined based on merit of intelligence and hard work. 11 Because the citizenry were the soldiers, the notions of individualism and equal opportunity operated as democratizing political forces for the Civil War soldiers. The democratic nature of Civil War battalions between the rank-andfile mirrored the democratic essence augmented by republican virtue. Consequently, these democratic elements would play the role of politicizing the citizen-soldiers throughout the war. While this political-egalitarian component of soldierhood carried over to postbellum America, the antebellum nature of American political citizenry is crucial to an analysis of the citizen-soldier. The men on the front lines - while adopting at least some of the essential traits necessary for effective soldierhood - always (and, indeed, male) citizenry of America. The increasingly democratic component of Civil War soldierhood, I argue, will translate into increased political egalitarianism and focus after the war. This focus will emphasize national unity - both as a political topic and as an implicit facet of postbellum American politics. For more on this change in policy from the Mexican- American War to the Civil War, see Robert W. Merry, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2009), Chapters 14-16. 11 Earl J. Hess, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union (New York: New York University Press, 1988), 6-7. 73
Quaestio retained their role as a citizen; that is, the Civil War soldier’s experience in war never eliminated their social and political ties to their communities. The fraternal, literary, entertainment, and religious groups established throughout the camps were directly rooted from their political and social connections to their upbringings in the American-political antebellum realm. 12 This human face to soldierhood stemmed from the long-standing tradition of American communities conditioning its youth to internalize the aforementioned notions of republican virtue and righteousness of democracy. As the citizen-soldier (particularly that of the North) fought in defense of these virtues and of the Constitution, their doing so stemmed from this internalization and its strong foothold in the soldier’s psyche. This often began in the domestic realm, where antebellum parenting became synonymous with emphasis on American virtue. Historian Jean Baker argues that democratic habit, and tendency toward what I have defined as republican virtue, is not bred naturally but learned. Consequently, women taught their children to be good American citizens as early as the late-eighteenth century when the ideal of the American 12 For more on the manifestation of these clubs and associations’ roots in Civil War soldierhood, see Reid Mitchell, “The Northern Soldier and His Community,” in Toward a <strong>Social</strong> History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays, ed. Maris A. Vinovskis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 79-81. 74
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