The won cause black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic / [electronic resource] :
Barbara A. Gannon.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- xiv, 282 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The only association where black men and white men mingle on a foot of equality -- Comradeship tried : the GAR in the South -- The African American post -- The black GAR circle -- Heirs of these dead heroes : African Americans and the battle for memory -- Memorial Day in black and white -- Where separate Grand Army posts are unknown, as colored and white are united : the integrated post -- Community, memory, and the integrated post -- Comrades bound by memories many -- And if spared and growing older -- Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable : what they remembered they won -- The won cause at century's end -- A story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom : the won cause in the twentieth century -- Epilogue: all one that day if never again : the final days of the GAR -- Appendix 1: African American posts -- Appendix 2: Integrated posts.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Grand Army of the Republic--History.
United States--History--Veterans.--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Societies, etc.--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--Race relations--History--19th century.