What This Cruel War Was Over Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War

Name: What This Cruel War Was Over Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780307264824

ISBN-10: 0307264823

ISBN-13: 9780307264824

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Authors: Chandra Manning

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A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops' ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers, Chandra Manning allows us to accompany soldiers-- black and white, northern and southern-- into camps and hospitals and on marches and battlefields to better understand their thoughts about what they were doing and why. Manning's work reveals that Union soldiers, though evincing little sympathy for abolitionism before the war, were calling for emancipation by the second half of 1861, ahead of civilians,…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/3/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



"Lincoln and liberty" : why an antislavery president meant war


"Richmond is a hard road to travel" : gaps between expectation and experience


"Kingdom coming in the year of Jubilo" : revolution and resistance


"Mine eyes have seen the glory" : the war and the hand of God


"Many are the hearts that are weary tonight" : the war in 1864


"Slavery's chain done broke at last" : the coming of the end


Conclusion : what this cruel war was over