What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War

Drawing on the diaries and letters of soldiers on both sides of the conflict, a close-up look at the meaning of slavery to Union and Confederate troops reveals how Union soldiers called for emancipation long before the Emancipation Proclamation and how Confederate soldiers believed that abolition would destroy the very fabric of Southern society. Reprint.

• | Author: Chandra Manning
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: March 11, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 350 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0307277321
• | ISBN-13: 9780307277329