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Marching Masters Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War / Colin Edward Woodward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodward, Colin Edward, 1975-
- Series:
- Nation Divided : Studies in the Civil War Era
- A nation divided : studies in the Civil War era
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Attitudes.
- Soldiers.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America.
- Confederate States of America--Military policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing upon hundreds of soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, Marching Masters combines the latest social and military history in its compelling examination of the last bloody years of slavery in the United States.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813935423
- 0813935423
- OCLC:
- 870893814
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