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

By Chandra Manning

Troubled refuge

By Chandra Manning

Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war, and they began running to the Union army. By the war's end, nearly half a million had t...

What This Cruel War Was Over

By Chandra Manning

Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this...

Troubled Refuge

By Chandra Manning

From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States...

House Divided

By Ari Kelman, Chandra Manning

What This Cruel War Was Over

By Chandra Manning

Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this...

Troubled Refuge

By Chandra Manning

From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United...