Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance

346 pages; b&w illustrations; bibliographic essay. Vicksburg was overshadoed by Gettysburg. Yet, the author states it was a more important battle. He reports on how the battle was and is remembered and the legacy of African-Americans who fought with the North or who were in slavery at the time and later lived through Reconstruction. Clean throughout; tight binding

From Publisher:

In this highly-anticipated new work, Christopher Waldrep takes a fresh look at how the Vicksburg campaign was fought and remembered. He begins with a gripping account of the battle, deftly recounting the experiences of African-American troops fighting for the Union. Waldrep shows how as the scars of battle faded, the memory of the war was shaped both by the Northerners who controlled the battlefield and by the legacies of race and slavery that played out over the decades that followed.

Product Info

ISBN: 0742548686

ISBN-13: 9780742548688

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: United States