The Debate on the American Civil War EraA historiographical examination of treatments of the Civil War from those that were engaged in it to those of the 1990s. The author argues for the centrality of racial assumptions both in the actual conflict and in conflicting interpretations. He traces how the historians' attitudes and assumptions were partly dictated by time and place and points to an overarching theme of the suppression of the centrality of race in the period following the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and before the emergence of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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By 1865 the Union had a superior ratio of men in arms of 5 : 1 and over a quarter
of the original Confederate army was dead . Both armies suffered from soldiers
taking extended furloughs or deserting . On 1 August 1863 President Davis ...
By 1865 the Union had a superior ratio of men in arms of 5 : 1 and over a quarter
of the original Confederate army was dead . Both armies suffered from soldiers
taking extended furloughs or deserting . On 1 August 1863 President Davis ...
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We are not only fighting hostile armies , but a hostile people , and must make old
and young , rich and poor , feel the hard hand of war , as well as their organised
armies . Most crucially , an army , like an individual , he believed , had a soul ...
We are not only fighting hostile armies , but a hostile people , and must make old
and young , rich and poor , feel the hard hand of war , as well as their organised
armies . Most crucially , an army , like an individual , he believed , had a soul ...
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9 McClellan quoted in Warren Hassler Jr , Commanders of the Army of the
Potomac ( Baton Rouge , 1962 ) , p . 48 ; and McClellan ' s letter to Lincoln , 7
July 1862 , in Henry Steele Commager ( ed . ) , Documents of American History , I
( New ...
9 McClellan quoted in Warren Hassler Jr , Commanders of the Army of the
Potomac ( Baton Rouge , 1962 ) , p . 48 ; and McClellan ' s letter to Lincoln , 7
July 1862 , in Henry Steele Commager ( ed . ) , Documents of American History , I
( New ...
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