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The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories...
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Susie King Taylor, who spent the Civil War years without pay or formal training, chronicles daily life on the battlefront as she took care of wounded members of a black regiment of Union soldiers and records interactions between blacks and whites during and after the war.
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