What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, And The Civil War

By Confederate States Of America. Army, Chandra Manning, Manning, Chandra

A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops’ ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas m...

Troubled Refuge: Struggling For Freedom In The Civil War

By Chandra Manning, Manning, Chandra

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 Stat...

What This Cruel War Was Over

By Confederate States Of America. Army, Chandra Manning, Manning, Chandra

A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops’ ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas m...

Troubled Refuge

By Chandra Manning, Manning, Chandra, Author

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...

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...