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Author:

Woodward, Colin Edward, 1975-

Title:

Marching masters : slavery, race, and the Confederate army during the Civil War / Colin Edward Woodward.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 283 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Attitudes.
Confederate States of America--Military policy.
Confederate States of America.--Army--Military life.
United States--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
United States--Participation, African American.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.
United States--Social aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"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".

Series:

A nation divided : studies in the Civil War era

ISBN:

0813935415 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813935416 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)861966355

LCCN:

2013029859

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)