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"A profound national devotion": the Civil War Union Leagues and the construction of a new national patriotism.

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From: Civil War History
Date: 20021201
Author:Lawson, Melinda

In December 1863, the Atlantic Monthly carried an unusual and striking narrative. The anonymous article told of the life and recent death of Philip Nolan, a young officer in the Western Division of the early-nineteenth-century army. An accomplice in the schemes of Aaron Burr, Nolan was convicted of playing a minor role in a treasonous plot. At his sentencing he was asked if he had anything to say that might suggest his abiding loyalty to the United States. But the young officer was tired of the service; he was tired of orders; he was tired of the trial, which seemed to drag on and ...

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