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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Brasher, Glenn David (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Slaves > Emancipation.
Military participation > African American.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
Cartes geographiques.
Maps.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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