Download or read book This Distracted and Anarchical People written by Andrew L. Slap and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book range widely throughout the history of the Civil War North, using new methods and sources to re-examine old theories and discover new aspects of America's greatest conflict. Many of these issues are just as important today as they were a century and a half ago.