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Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom) draws on the letters or diaries of nearly 1,000 Union and Confederate soldiers in investigating what motivated those who fought the Civil War. The result is both an impressive scholarly tour de force and a highly accessible account of the sentiments of both sides of the conflict.
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What They Fought For, 1861-1865 Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
author
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McPherson, James M.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807119040
print isbn13
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9780807119044
ebook isbn13
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9780585308432
language
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English
subject
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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E459.M24 1994eb
ddc
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973.7/11
subject
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
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The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History Louisiana State University
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What They Fought For 18611865
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Other Books BY James M. McPherson
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1964)
The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union (1965)
Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War (1967)
The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP (1975)
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1982)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (1991)
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What They Fought For 18611865
James M. McPherson
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Copyright 1994 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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Designer: Amanda McDonald Key Typeface: Sabon Typesetter: G & S Typesetters, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McPherson, James M. What they fought for, 18611865 / James M. McPherson. p. cm. (The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history) Includes index. ISBN 0-8071-1904-0 (alk. paper) 1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Causes. I. Title. II. Series. E459.M24 1994 973.7'11dc20 93-36934 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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For Patricia, a helpmeet in more ways than one
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Contents
Preface
xi
Abbreviations
xv
Introduction
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1 "The Holy Cause of Liberty and Independence"
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2 "The Best Government on God's Footstool"
27
3 "The War Will Never End Until We End Slavery"
47
Notes
71
Index
87
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Preface
During the whole of my professional life I have been aware of the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures as the most important lecture series in the field of southern history. Much significant new work on slavery, sectional conflict, the Confederacy, Reconstruction, race relations, and a host of other topics has received its initial exposure in these lectures. The leading scholars of southern history in the past half century have served as Fleming lecturers. My own mentor, C. Vann Woodward, has done so twice.
I was most pleased and flattered, therefore, to be invited to deliver the fifty-fifth series of Fleming Lectures in 1993. My experiences during those beautiful spring days at Louisiana State University were all I could have hoped for, and more. The Department of History proved to be a wonderful host. The audiences for the three lectures were most stimulating, and the questions they asked have helped to clarify my thinking in the best tradition of intellectual discourse. I wish to thank Professor William J. Cooper and Professor Paul F. Paskoff, acting chairman of the Department of History, for making my stay on the LSU campus so pleasant. Bill Cooper and his wife, Patricia, were generous hosts not only on this occasion but also on a previous visit to the Hill Memorial Library at LSU, where I did part of the research for these lectures.
In preparing the lectures for publication I have received
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the efficient assistance of the staff of the LSU Press. I appreciate the opportunity they have provided to make my findings available to a wider audience. The lectures appear here in a form only slightly altered from their oral delivery, in the hope that the direct, rather than discursive, style required by the lecture format will retain its effectiveness on the printed page.
Historical research is impossible without the help of librarians and curators of manuscript collections. The personnel of the seventeen libraries and historical societies where I did research for this book are too numerous to name individually. But I must single out for particular mention the staffs of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, which possesses not only a superb collection of Civil War books but also nearly fifty manuscript collections of soldiers' letters or diaries and of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina and the Perkins Library at Duke University, which have the two largest collections of Confederate soldiers' letters and diaries, as well as many Union collections. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Dr. Richard Sommers, archivist of the United States Army Military History Institute at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, who guided me through the rich and multitudinous collections of letters and diaries, especially of Union soldiers, in that repository. And I must also thank Peter Michel and his staff at the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, who graciously gave me access to their collections during a distracting move into a new building.
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