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v. 2. The glorious cause: the American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Robert Middlekauff -- v. 6. Battle cry of freedom: the Civil War era / James M. McPherson -- v. 9. Freedom from fear: the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 / David M. Kennedy -- v. 10. Grand expectations: the United States, 1945-1974 / James T. Patterson.;V. 10. Veterans, ethnics, blacks, women -- Unions, liberals, and the state: stalemate -- Booms -- Grand expectations about the world -- Hardening of the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- Domestic politics: Trumans first term -- Red scares abroad and at home -- Korea -- Ike -- World affairs, 1953-1956 -- The biggest boom yet -- Mass consumer culture -- Race -- A center holds, more or less, 1957-1960 -- The polarized sixties: an overview -- The new frontier at home -- JFK and the world -- Lyndon Johnson and American liberalism -- A great society and the rise of rights-consciousness -- Escalation in Vietnam -- Rights, polarization, and backlash, 1966-1967 -- The most turbulent year: 1968 -- Rancor and Richard Nixon -- Nixon, Vietnam, and the world, 1969-1974 -- End of an era? Expectations amid Watergate and recession.;V. 6. Prologue: From the Halls of Montezuma --The United States at midcentury -- Mexico will poison us -- An empire for slavery -- Slavery, rum, and Romanism -- The crime against Kansas -- Mudsills and greasy mechanics for A. Lincoln -- The Revolution of 1860 -- The counterrevolution of 1861 -- Facing both ways: the upper souths dilemma -- Amateurs go to war -- Farewell to the Ninety Days War -- Blockade and beachhead: the Salt-water War, 1861-1862 -- The River War in 1862 -- The sinews of war -- Billy Yanks chickahominy blues -- We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued -- Carry me back to old Virginny -- John Bulls Virginia reel -- Three rivers in winter, 1862-1863 -- Fire in the rear -- Long remember: the summer of 63 -- Johnny Rebs Chattanooga blues -- When this cruel war is over -- If it takes all summer -- After four years of failure -- We are going to be wiped off the earth -- South Carolina must be destroyed -- We are all Americans -- To the shoals of victory.;V. 2. Prologue: Sustaining truths -- Obstructed giant -- Children of the twice-born -- Beginnings: from the top down -- Stamp Act crisis -- Response -- Seldens penny -- Chance and Charles Townshend -- Boston takes the lead -- Bastards of England -- Drift -- Resolution -- War -- Half a war -- Independence -- War of posts -- War of maneuver -- Revolution becomes a European war -- War in the South -- Fugitive war -- Inside the campaigns -- Outside the campaigns -- Yorktown and Paris -- Constitutional movement -- Children of the twice-born in the 1780s -- Constitutional Convention -- Ratification: an end and a beginning -- Epilogue: Enduring truths.

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Battle Cry of Freedom

"McPherson handles all... with a beautifully organized, compelling narrative and prose whose occasional leap into modern ebullience SHOULD CAPTIVATE A NEW GENERATION OF CIVIL WAR READERS."

Chicago Tribune

"THIS IS AN EPIC STORY TOLD IN EPIC STYLE, written in clear, luminous prose.... a zesty, meaty intellectual feast that will nourish and satisfy the reader."

The Houston Post

"Exhaustively researched, written with skill and assurance.... THIS BOOK MAY NOT BE SUPERSEDED IN OUR TIME."

Newsday

"ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON [THE] SUBJECT.... McPherson combines fine scholarship with a clear writing style and a sense for dramatic narrative."

The Grand Rapids Press

"BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO WHAT IT ALL MEANS.... McPherson weaves together a story that makes the legends and the ideologies seem like fresh material, worthy of fresh thinking."

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Other books by James M. McPherson

The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction

The Negro's Civil War

Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War

Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays (with others)

The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP

Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward (coeditor)

Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction

BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM

The Civil War Era

JAMES M. McPHERSON

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McPherson, James M.
Battle cry freedom.
(The Oxford history of the United States; v. 6)
Bibliography: p. Includes index
ISBN: 978-0-19-503863-7 / 978-0-19-516895-2 pbk

1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Campaigns.
2. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865.
I. Title.
II. Series.
E173.094 vol. 6 [E470]
973.7'3 87-11045

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Printed in the United States of America

To Vann and Willie

and to the
memory of

Glenn and Bill

Who introduced me to the world
of history and academia in the
good old days at Hopkins

BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM

The original words and music of this sprightly song were written in the summer of 1862 by George F. Root, one of the North's leading Civil War composers. So catchy was the tune that southern composer H. L. Schreiner and lyricist W. H. Barnes adapted it for the Confederacy. The different versions became popular on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Reproduced here are Verse 3 and the Chorus of each version.

Preface Both sides in the American Civil War professed to be fighting for - photo 4

Preface

Both sides in the American Civil War professed to be fighting for freedom. The South, said Jefferson Davis in 1863, was "forced to take up arms to vindicate the political rights, the freedom, equality, and State sovereignty which were the heritage purchased by the blood of our revolutionary sires." But if the Confederacy succeeded in this endeavor, insisted Abraham Lincoln, it would destroy the Union "conceived in Liberty" by those revolutionary sires as "the last, best hope" for the preservation of republican freedoms in the world. "We must settle this question now," said Lincoln in 1861, "whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose."

Northern publicists ridiculed the Confederacy's claim to fight for freedom. "Their motto," declared poet and editor William Cullen Bryant, "is not liberty, but slavery." But the North did not at first fight to free the slaves. "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists," said Lincoln early in the conflict. The Union Congress overwhelmingly endorsed this position in July 1861. Within a year, however, both Lincoln and Congress decided to make emancipation of slaves in Confederate states a Union war policy. By the time of the Gettysburg Address, in November 1863, the North was fighting for a "new birth of freedom" to transform the Constitution written by the founding fathers, under which the United States had become the world's largest slaveholding country, into a charter of emancipation for a republic where, as the northern version of "The Battle Cry of Freedom" put it, "Not a man shall be a slave."

The multiple meanings of slavery and freedom, and how they dissolved and re-formed into new patterns in the crucible of war, constitute a central theme of this book. That same crucible fused the several states bound loosely in a federal Union under a weak central government into a new Nation forged by the fires of a war in which more Americans lost their lives than in all of the country's other wars combined.

Americans of the Civil War generation lived through an experience in which time and consciousness took on new dimensions. "These are fearfully critical, anxious days, in which the destinies of the continent for centuries will be decided," wrote one contemporary in a sentence typical of countless others that occur in Civil War diaries and letters. "The excitement of the war, & interest in its incidents, have absorbed everything else. We think and talk of nothing else," wrote Virginia's fire-eater Edmund Ruffin in August 1861, a remark echoed three days later by the Yankee sage Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The war... has assumed such huge proportions that it threatens to engulf us allno preoccupation can exclude it, & no hermitage hide us." The conflict "crowded into a few years the emotions of a lifetime," wrote a northern civilian in 1865. After Gettysburg, General George Meade told his wife that during the past ten days "I have lived as much as in the last thirty years." From faraway London, where he served his father as a private secretary at the American legation, young Henry Adams wondered "whether any of us will ever be able to live contented in times of peace and laziness. Our generation has been stirred up from its lowest layers and there is that in its history which will stamp every member of it until we are all in our graves. We cannot be commonplace.... One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life." In 1882 Samuel Clemens found that the Civil War remained at the center of southern consciousness: it was "what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it." This was scarcely surprising, wrote Twain, for the war had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old... transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations."

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