The Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation : African Americans and the fight for freedom /

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In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B. McClellan failed in his plan to capture the Confederate capital and bring a quick end to the conflict. But the campaign saw something new in the war - the participation of African Americans in ways that were critical to the Union offe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brasher, Glenn David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
1861-1865
Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Military participation > African American.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
Virginia.
United States.
Electronic books.
Maps.
History.
Cartes géographiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an evening on Malvern Hill
  • Preludes: war, slavery, and the Virginia peninsula
  • Contraband of war: April-July 1861
  • War is a swift educator: July-December 1861
  • The best informed residents in Virginia: December 1861-April 1862
  • The monuments to negro labor: April-May 1862
  • Those by whom these relations are broken: May 1862
  • An invaluable ally: late May-July 1862
  • A higher destiny: July 1862
  • Conclusion: monarchs of all they survey.

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