Marching Masters Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
- University of Virginia Press 2014.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
"The question of slavery" : Confederate soldiers and the Southern cause, 1861-1862 -- Planters and yeomen, officers and privates : race, class and Confederate soldiers -- The greatest of masters : the Confederate Army and the impressment of black labor -- "Send me the negro boy" : Confederate soldiers and the need for slaves in camp -- "We crushed their freedom" : emancipation and the problem of slave loyalty -- On battlefields and in prisons : Confederate soldiers confront black Union troops -- Free to fight : the Confederate Army and the use of slaves as soldiers -- Relics of the antebellum era : Confederate soldiers and the postwar world -- Conclusion : "republics have proverbially short memories".
9780813935423 9781306428668
Confederate States of America. Army --Military life.
Slavery--History--Southern States--19th century. Soldiers--Attitudes.--Confederate States of America