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

Authors

Randall M. Miller

ISBN

9780307264824

Price

$26.95 hardcover

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Abstract

Why They Fought

Civil War Soldiers and Slavery

Chandra Manning opens her enlightening and important book with three quotations. The first is from the regimental newspaper of the Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment in February 1862: The Fact that slavery is the sole undeniable....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.9.3.26

Recommended Citation

Miller, Randall M. (2007) "What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 9 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.9.3.26
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol9/iss3/26