Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War

by Colin Edward Woodward

Book Overview

The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery. Most Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders themselves, but they were products of the largest and most prosperous slaveholding civilization the world had ever seen, and they sought to maintain clear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081394984X
• ISBN13: 9780813949840
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"