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02614aam a2200385 i 4500 001 26F128122E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 171019s2018 ncu b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017050242 020 $a 146963886X 020 $a 9781469638867 035 $a (OCoLC)1004554156 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a E491 $b .T46 2018 082 00 $a 973.7/3 $2 23 100 1 $a Teters, Kristopher A., $e author. 245 10 $a Practical liberators : $b Union officers in the western theater during the Civil War / $c Kristopher A. Teters. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b University of North Carolina Press, $c [2018] 300 $a 225 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Civil War America 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Union army's struggle over the limits of confiscation in the West -- An emancipationist turn of policy -- Union officers and the intense debate over emancipation and black troops -- Officers, servants, and race -- A practical army of liberation : how the Union army carried out emancipation in the West -- William T. Sherman and his officers : the reluctant emancipators. 520 $a "During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains. But after Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act in 1862, army policy became mostly consistent in its support of liberating the slaves in general, in spite of Union army officers' differences of opinion. By 1863 and the final Emancipation Proclamation, the army had transformed into the key force for instituting emancipation in the West. However, Kristopher Teters argues that the guiding principles behind this development in attitudes and policy were a result of military necessity and pragmatic strategies, rather than an effort to enact racial equality."-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x Attitudes. $x Attitudes. 650 0 $a Slaves $x Government policy $x Government policy $z Southwest, Old. 651 0 $a Southwest, Old $x Campaigns. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Campaigns. 651 0 $a United States $x Campaigns. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Campaigns. 830 0 $a Civil War America (Series) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018020954.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=26F128122E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search