Title The won cause : black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic / Barbara A. Gannon

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) : illustrations Series Civil War America Civil War America (Series) Contents The only association where black men and white men mingle on a foot of equality -- Comradeship tried : the GAR in the South -- The African American post -- The black GAR circle -- Heirs of these dead heroes : African Americans and the battle for memory -- Memorial Day in black and white -- Where separate Grand Army posts are unknown, as colored and white are united : the integrated post -- Community, memory, and the integrated post -- Comrades bound by memories many -- And if spared and growing older -- Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable : what they remembered they won -- The won cause at century's end -- 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Grand Army of the Republic -- History SUBJECT Grand Army of the Republic fast Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) Race relations Societies Veterans SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Societies, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140274 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807877708 0807877700 9781469603124 1469603128

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