
The Won Cause
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According to the conventional view, the freedoms and interests of African American veterans were not defended by white Union veterans after the war, despite the shared tradition of sacrifice among both black and white soldiers. In The Won Cause, however, Gannon challenges this scholarship, arguing that although black veterans still suffered under the contemporary racial mores, the GAR honored its black members in many instances and ascribed them a greater equality than previous studies have shown. Using evidence of integrated posts and veterans' thoughts on their comradeship and the cause, Gannon reveals that white veterans embraced black veterans because their membership in the GAR demonstrated that their wartime suffering created a transcendent bond — comradeship — that overcame even the most pernicious social barrier — race-based separation. By upholding a more inclusive memory of a war fought for liberty as well as union, the GAR’s “Won Cause” challenged the Lost Cause version of Civil War memory.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I: The World African Americans Made in the Grand Army of the Republic
- 1. The Only Association Where Black Men and White Men Mingle on a Foot of Equality
- 2. Comradeship Tried: The GAR in the South
- 3. The African American Post
- 4. The Black GAR Circle
- 5. Heirs of These Dead Heroes: African Americans and the Battle for Memory
- 6. Memorial Day in Black and White
- PART II: The World Black and White Veterans Made Together
- 7. Where Separate Grand Army Posts Are Unknown, As Colored and White Are United: The Integrated Post
- 8. Community, Memory, and the Integrated Post
- PART III: Brothers Ever We Shall Be: Black and White Comradeship in the GAR
- 9. Comrades Bound by Memories Many
- 10. And If Spared and Growing Older
- PART IV: The Won Cause: A Meaning for Their Suffering
- 11. Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable: What They Remembered They Won
- 12. The Won Cause at Century's End
- 13. 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 GAR Posts
- APPENDIX 2 Integrated GAR Posts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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