What This Cruel War Was Over

by Chandra Manning

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  As I was completing the dissertation that gave this book its start, my friend David Konigsberg cheerfully (and superfluously) pointed out that I had spent longer working on the dissertation than it took soldiers to fight the Civil War. Recently, he “helpfully” reminded me that in the time it has taken me to revise the dissertation into a book, I could have fought the war all over again. Any project that takes that long benefits from a lot of help along the way, and it gives me enormous pleasure to say “thank you” to some of the people and institutions that have provided assistance.

  Long campaigns require supply lines and other forms of logistical support. I appreciate the support provided by the Harvard University Department of History, the Harvard University Graduate Student Council, the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Packard Fellowship, the Oscar Handlin Fellowship, the Charles Warren Center, the King V. Hostick Award of the Illinois State Historical Library, the Alfred Landon Grant of the Kansas State Historical Society, the Jacob Price Visiting Research Fellowship of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan, the Archie K. Davis Fellowship of the North Caroliniana Society and the Mellon Research Fellowship Program of the Virginia Historical Society. The C. Vann Woodward Prize awarded by the Southern Historical Association allowed me to get started on revising; the existence of the prize testifies to the SHA’s genuine commitment to fostering the development of junior scholars. I also appreciate the Regency Fellowship provided by Pacific Lutheran University, which enabled me to dedicate the summer of 2004 to writing, and the generosity of the Georgetown University Department of History in lightening my teaching load in the fall of 2005, which sped up the completion of the manuscript.