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The Thin Light of Freedom - The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America (Hardcover)
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The Thin Light of Freedom - The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America (Hardcover)
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Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace, invited destruction
in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies ground up the
valley, consuming crops, livestock, fences and human life. Pitched
battles at Gettysburg, Lynchburg and Cedar Creek punctuated a cycle
of vicious attacks and reprisals in which armies burned whole towns
for retribution. North of the Mason-Dixon line, free black families
sent husbands and sons to fight with the US Colored Troops. In
letters home, even as Lincoln commemorated the dead at Gettysburg,
they spoke movingly of a war for emancipation. As defeat and the
end of slavery descended on Virginia, with the drama of
Reconstruction unfolding in Washington, the classrooms of the
Freedmen's Bureau schools spoke of a new society struggling to
emerge. Here is history at its best: powerful, insightful and
grounded in human detail.
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