The won cause : black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic / / Barbara A. Gannon.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Gannon, Barbara A.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 282 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• 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.