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Raising the white flag : how surrender defined the American Civil War

Title: Raising the white flag : how surrender defined the American Civil War / by David Silkenat.
Author: Silkenat, David
Publication: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description

358 pages : 2 illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Built on extensive archival research, Raising the White Flag presents the first comprehensive examination of why surrender featured so prominently in the Civil War. Looking at the Civil War from the perspective of men who surrendered opens new vistas onto familiar topics, providing fresh insights into the plight of prisoners of war, guerrilla warfare, Southern Unionists, and African American soldiers, the culture of honor, the experience of combat, and the laws of war"--

Series Statement

Civil War America

Uniform Title

Civil War America (Series)

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Treated with the greatest civility : Winfield Scott, Robert Anderson, and the path to Fort Sumter -- Heroes and cowards : honor and shame in early Civil War surrenders -- Instinctively my hands went up : soldiers, agency, and surrender on the battlefield -- Better to be a prisoner than a corpse : surrender at the Battle of Gettysburg -- Worse than murder : Ulysses S. Grant, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and unconditional surrender -- To the last man : surrender and the hard war -- A convulsion at Appomattox : Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the uneasy peace -- Dying in the last ditch : Joseph Johnston, Richard Taylor, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the fall of the Cis-Mississippi Confederacy -- Without a government : Jeff Thompson, Edmund Kirby Smith, and the slow death of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy -- Never surrender : remembering (and forgetting) Civil War surrenders.

Call Number

JFE 20-1472

ISBN

9781469649726
1469649721

LCCN

2018031110

OCLC

1043050190

Author

Silkenat, David, author. Author

Title

Raising the white flag : how surrender defined the American Civil War / by David Silkenat.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Civil War America

Civil War America (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1472

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