Marching masters : slavery, race, and the Confederate army during the Civil War

Woodward, Colin Edward 1975- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780813935416
ISBN: 0813935415
Physical Description: print
x, 283 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-274) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"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".