What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War by Chandra Manning

What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War

Chandra Manning

368 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops’ ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation.Using soldiers’ le...

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