Searching for Black Confederates
Subtitle: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781469653266
Subjects: United states, history
Description: "In addition to tracking the evolution of the black Confederate myth, Levin explores the roles that African Americans performed in the army with a particular focus on the relationship between officers and their personal body servants or camp slaves. In contrast to claims that these men served as soldiers in racially integrated regiments, Levin demonstrates that regardless of the dangers faced in camp, on the march and on the battlefield their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers. Levin offers an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history"--
Table of contents: title: Introduction; label: Chapter 1
title: The Camp Slaves' War; label: Chapter 2
title: Camp Slaves on the Battlefield; label: Chapter 3
title: Camp Slaves and the Lost Cause; label: Chapter 4
title: Camp Slaves and Pensions; label: Chapter 5
title: Turning Camp Slaves into Black Confederate Soldiers; label: Chapter 6
title: Black Confederates on the Front Lines of the Civil War Sesquicentennial; title: Conclusion; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index