The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic (Civil War America)
"Gannon presents an original and absorbing account . . .countering current scholarship. . . . A compelling corrective to common misconceptions. . . . Pertinent and persuasive; highly recommended for Civil War specialists."--Library Journal"This book will force readers to reconsider their assumptions about 19th-century race relations. Recommended. All levels/libraries."--Choice"An insightful examination of the ways individual memory and historical fact meld together to create an organization's and a nation's public identity."--Civil War Times"[Gannon's] research method is an important step in the efforts to rewrite the history of African Americans, their contributions to the Civil War and efforts to gain equality."--Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians"[The Won Cause] would make an important addition to the libraries of those readers who are interested in the GAR and the role of its members in defining Gilded Age race relations."--Journal of America's Military Past"Will contribute to ongoing and vigorous debates on how freedom came during and after the American Civil War."--H-CivWar"An invaluable resource."--Kansas History"This important and provocative volume makes. . . valuable contributions to our understanding of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), and particularly the role of African American veterans in that powerful postwar organization. . . . [A] rich and powerful text."--Florida Historical Quarterly"The important corrective administered [in Gannon's book] will change the way we think about the Grand Army of the Republic and race from now on."--Journal of Southern History"Uncover[s] the extent of African American participation and integration in the GAR. . . .The Won Causebrings an important new perspective."--The Annals of Iowa"The Won Causeis a unique and important contribution to the slowly growing literature on Civil War veterans and will help inspire historians to take closer looks at the ways that veterans and their communities responded to the decades following the war."--Journal of the Civil War Era"A concise and provocative book. . . . [it] will force historians to reconsider many aspects of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century race relations and to listen more carefully to the voices of the veterans."--Register of The Kentucky Historical Society"A stimulating and provocative book."--Journal of American History"A welcome addition to the literature on the Civil War, its veterans, and its collective memory in American society between the 1860s and 1920s."--Civil War Book Review"Gannon's innovative research method, the logical rigor of her argument, and the persuasiveness of her evidence make this an invaluable contribution to the literatures on the Civil War, emancipation, race, and memory."--American Historical Review"The Won Causeis an important an impressive book."--Army History