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The won cause : black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic
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The won cause : black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic / Barbara A. Gannon.
ISBN
9780807834527 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807834521 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2011
Series
Civil War America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The only association where black men and white men mingle on a foot of equality
Comradeship tried : the GAR in the South
The African American post
The black GAR circle
Heirs of these dead heroes : African Americans and the battle for memory
Memorial Day in black and white
Where separate Grand Army posts are unknown, as colored and white are united : the integrated post
Community, memory, and the integrated post
Comrades bound by memories many
And if spared and growing older
Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable : what they remembered they won
The won cause at century's end
A story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom : the won cause in the twentieth century
Epilogue: all one that day if never again : the final days of the GAR
Appendix 1: African American posts
Appendix 2: Integrated GAR posts.
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