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Barbara A. Gannon, "The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic "
English | ISBN: 0807834521 | 2011 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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 American veterans were not defended by white Union veterans after the war, despite the shared tradition of sacrifice among both black and white soldiers. In
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