Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The question of slavery" : Confederate soldiers and the Southern cause, 1861-1862
  • Planters and yeomen, officers and privates : race, class and Confederate soldiers
  • The greatest of masters : the Confederate Army and the impressment of black labor
  • "Send me the negro boy" : Confederate soldiers and the need for slaves in camp
  • "We crushed their freedom" : emancipation and the problem of slave loyalty
  • On battlefields and in prisons : Confederate soldiers confront black Union troops
  • Free to fight : the Confederate Army and the use of slaves as soldiers
  • Relics of the antebellum era : Confederate soldiers and the postwar world
  • Conclusion : "republics have proverbially short memories."