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ISBN

9781538161555

Publication Date

2023

Price

29.95

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Abstract

Building from the “Left Armed Corps” (a cohort of veterans who lost their right arms to battle or disease and then entered one of two “left-handed penmanship” competitions soon after the war), Goldman argues that as “Jim Crow took hold on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, Union veterans individually and collectively maintained their important interconnected roles as potent moral and political forces, particularly through the Grand Army of the Republic.

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.25.3.11

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