Marching masters [electronic resource] : slavery, race, and the Confederate army during the Civil War / Colin Edward Woodward.
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TextSeries: A nation divided : studies in the Civil War era | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN: - 9780813935423
- 0813935423
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans
- Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Attitudes
- Confederate States of America. Army -- Military life
- Confederate States of America -- Military policy
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
- 973.7/42 23
- E607 .W66 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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".
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