The Won Cause : Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic.

By: Gannon, Barbara AMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Civil War AmericaPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807877708Subject(s): Grand Army of the Republic -- History | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Societies, etc | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans | United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Won Cause : Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the RepublicDDC classification: 369/.15 LOC classification: E462.1.A7 -- G36 2011ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: The World African Americans Made in the Grand Army of the Republic -- 1. The Only Association Where Black Men and White Men Mingle on a Foot of Equality -- 2. Comradeship Tried: The GAR in the South -- 3. The African American Post -- 4. The Black GAR Circle -- 5. Heirs of These Dead Heroes: African Americans and the Battle for Memory -- 6. Memorial Day in Black and White -- PART II: The World Black and White Veterans Made Together -- 7. Where Separate Grand Army Posts Are Unknown, As Colored and White Are United: The Integrated Post -- 8. Community, Memory, and the Integrated Post -- PART III: Brothers Ever We Shall Be: Black and White Comradeship in the GAR -- 9. Comrades Bound by Memories Many -- 10. And If Spared and Growing Older -- PART IV: The Won Cause: A Meaning for Their Suffering -- 11. Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable: What They Remembered They Won -- 12. The Won Cause at Century's End -- 13. A Story of a Slaveholding Society that Became a Servant of Freedom: The Won Cause in the Twentieth Century -- EPILOGUE: All One that Day If Never Again: The Final Days of the GAR -- APPENDIX 1 African American GAR Posts -- APPENDIX 2 Integrated GAR Posts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Gannon chronicles black and white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization and the nation's first interracial organization.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: The World African Americans Made in the Grand Army of the Republic -- 1. The Only Association Where Black Men and White Men Mingle on a Foot of Equality -- 2. Comradeship Tried: The GAR in the South -- 3. The African American Post -- 4. The Black GAR Circle -- 5. Heirs of These Dead Heroes: African Americans and the Battle for Memory -- 6. Memorial Day in Black and White -- PART II: The World Black and White Veterans Made Together -- 7. Where Separate Grand Army Posts Are Unknown, As Colored and White Are United: The Integrated Post -- 8. Community, Memory, and the Integrated Post -- PART III: Brothers Ever We Shall Be: Black and White Comradeship in the GAR -- 9. Comrades Bound by Memories Many -- 10. And If Spared and Growing Older -- PART IV: The Won Cause: A Meaning for Their Suffering -- 11. Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable: What They Remembered They Won -- 12. The Won Cause at Century's End -- 13. A Story of a Slaveholding Society that Became a Servant of Freedom: The Won Cause in the Twentieth Century -- EPILOGUE: All One that Day If Never Again: The Final Days of the GAR -- APPENDIX 1 African American GAR Posts -- APPENDIX 2 Integrated GAR Posts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Gannon chronicles black and white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization and the nation's first interracial organization.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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