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Armies of Deliverance - A New History of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Armies of Deliverance - A New History of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South
but to liberate it. In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon
offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new
interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Lincoln's Union
coalition sought to deliver the South from slaveholder tyranny and
deliver to it the blessings of modern civilization. Over the course
of the war, supporters of black freedom built the case that slavery
was the obstacle to national reunion and that emancipation would
secure military victory and benefit Northern and Southern whites
alike. To sustain their morale, Northerners played up evidence of
white Southern Unionism, of antislavery progress in the
slaveholding border states, and of disaffection among Confederates.
But the Union's emphasis on Southern deliverance served,
ironically, not only to galvanize loyal Amer icans but also to
galvanize disloyal ones. Confederates, fighting to establish an
independent slaveholding republic, scorned the Northern promise of
liberation and argued that the emancipation of blacks was
synonymous with the subjugation of the white South. Interweaving
military strategy, political decision-making, popular culture, and
private reflections, Varon shows that contests over war aims took
place at every level of society within the Union and Confederacy.
Everyday acts on the ground-scenes of slave flight, of relief
efforts to alleviate suffering, of protests against the draft, of
armies plundering civilian homes, of civilian defiance of military
occupation, of violence between neighbors, of communities mourning
the fallen-reverberated at the highest levels of governance. In
this book, major battles receive extensive treatment, providing
windows into how soldiers and civilians alike coped with physical
and emotional toll of the war, as it escalated into a massive
humanitarian crisis. Although the Union's politics of deliverance
helped to bring military victory, such appeals ultimately failed to
convince Confederates to accept peace on the victor's terms.
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