The won cause : black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic / Barbara A. Gannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gannon, Barbara A.

Series:

Civil War America.

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grand Army of the Republic--History.

Grand Army of the Republic.

Race relations.

History.

Veterans.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Societies, etc.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]

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 GAR posts

Appendix 2: Integrated GAR posts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807834527

0807834521

OCLC:

668197670