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Raising the White Flag - How Surrender Defined the American Civil War (Paperback)
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Raising the White Flag - How Surrender Defined the American Civil War (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union
troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders,
most famously at Appomattox Courthouse. But in the intervening four
years, both Union and Confederate forces surrendered en masse on
scores of other occasions. Indeed, roughly one out of every four
soldiers surrendered at some point during the conflict. In no other
American war did surrender happen so frequently. David Silkenat
here provides the first comprehensive study of Civil War surrender,
focusing on the conflicting social, political, and cultural
meanings of the action. Looking at the conflict from the
perspective of men who surrendered, Silkenat creates new avenues to
understand prisoners of war, fighting by Confederate guerillas, the
role of southern Unionists, and the experiences of African American
soldiers. The experience of surrender also sheds valuable light on
the culture of honor, the experience of combat, and the laws of
war.
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