Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
1989.
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| Edition: | 1st Ballantine Books ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The United States at midcentury
- Mexico will poison us
- An empire for slavery
- Slavery, rum, and Romanism
- The crime against Kansas
- Mudsills and greasy mechanics for A. Lincoln
- The Revolution of 1860
- The counterrevolution of 1861
- Facing both ways: the upper south's dilemma
- Amateurs go to war
- Farewell to the Ninety Days' War
- Blockade and beachhead: the Salt-water War, 1861-1862
- The River War in 1862
- The sinews of war
- Billy Yank's Chickahominy blues
- We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued
- Carry me back to old Virginny
- John Bull's Virginia reel
- Three rivers in winter, 1862-1863
- Fire in the rear
- Long remember: the summer of '63
- Johnny Reb's Chattanooga blues
- When this cruel war is over
- If it takes all summer
- After four years of failure
- We are going to be wiped off the earth
- South Carolina must be destroyed
- We are all Americans
- Epilogue: to the shoals of victory.