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Midwestern Home Front
Aley, Ginette, J. L. Anderson, Davis, William C., Ebrary, Inc, and Project Muse. Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front during the Civil War / Edited by Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson; with a Foreword by William C. Davis. UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
Aley describes how this war affected family roles, gender identities, economics and politics. The essays compiled in this book give special attention to how civilian life and military life was intertwined. They explore the how men made the decision to go off to war and what became of prisoners of war when they were emerged into the home front environment.

Balasubramanian, D. "Wisconsin's Foreign Trade in the Civil War Era." The Wisconsin Magazine of History 46, no. 4 (1963): 257-62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4633874.

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Diss., University of Wisconsin, 1954.
Miller broadly details the Eau Claire area during the Civil War. He describes a wide array of topics including the areas agriculture, industry, travel and more. The most notable portion of this dissertation is the home front efforts and the public sentiment towards the war.

William Fletcher Thompson, Jr. "Illustrating the Civil War." The Wisconsin Magazine of History 45, no. 1 (1961): 10-20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4633693.

Thompson writes about the portrayal of the civil warfare through the medium of popular journalism by means of illustrations. He includes accounts of artists who risk their lives on the battlegrounds to sketch the historical moments of the Civil War. Thompson introduces a variety of different artists and their work. Included paintings and sketches of campsites that were done by the artists themselves.

William Fletcher Thompson, Jr. "Pictorial Propaganda and the Civil War." The Wisconsin Magazine of History 46, no. 1 (1962): 21-31.

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