Becoming American under fire
Subtitle: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era
By: Christian G. Samito
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780801448461
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The crisis of citizenship in the 1850s; title: The question of armed service; title: African Americans in arms; title: Equal rights and the experience of military justice for African American soldiers; title: Irish Americans in arms; title: African Americans and the call for rights; title: The affirmation of naturalized citizenship in America; title: The affirmation of naturalized citizenship abroad; title: Epilogue: the legacy of national citizenship in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.