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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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.