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(0)Barbara A Gannon
Author
Publisher
Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xx, 170 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Most Americans are aware of statues or other outdoor art dedicated to the memory of the Civil War. Indeed, the erection of Civil War monuments permanently changed the landscape of U.S. public parks and cemeteries by the turn of the century. But monuments are only one way that the Civil War is memorialized. This book describes the different ways in which Americans have publicly remembered their Civil War, from the immediate postwar era to the early...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the nation's first interracial organization.
According to the conventional view, the freedoms and interests of African...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Formats
Description
How did a country once so united split in two? Why did the South feel that the North threatened their traditions and livelihood? Why did the North only want to fight in the South's territory? From the campaign for emancipation to the brutal battlefield, The U.S. Civil War: Why They Fought reveals the motivations behind the U.S. Civil War from all sides. Go beyond names and dates and ask: what were they fight for?