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The won cause : black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic /

In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Gannon chronicles black and white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization and the nation's first interracial organization.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gannon, Barbara A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The only association where black men and white men mingle on a foot of equality
  • Comradeship tried : the GAR in the South
  • The African American post
  • The black GAR circle
  • Heirs of these dead heroes : African Americans and the battle for memory
  • Memorial Day in black and white
  • Where separate Grand Army posts are unknown, as colored and white are united : the integrated post
  • Community, memory, and the integrated post
  • Comrades bound by memories many
  • And if spared and growing older
  • Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable : what they remembered they won
  • The won cause at century's end
  • A story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom : the won cause in the twentieth century
  • Epilogue: all one that day if never again : the final days of the GAR
  • Appendix 1: African American GAR posts
  • Appendix 2: Integrated GAR posts.