Woodward, Colin Edward, 1975-

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


Electronic Books.

E607 / .M373 2014