The Union War (Gary W. Gallagher - UA) slave survivors of the Civil War

survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record

and accounts reveal just how deeply the killing

announcing “a Regiment of Cavalry Volunteers

the American Civil War would come to an end

” If you have heard of Dana

The Union War (Gary W. Gallagher - UA) slave survivors of the Civil Warby Gary Gallagher Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil Warby its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary