02383nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10468955 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 101102s2011 ncua sb s001 0 eng d 2010045628 9780807834527 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807877708 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)729253192 n-us--- E462.1.A7 G36 2011eb 369/.15 22 Gannon, Barbara A. The won cause [electronic resource] : black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic / Barbara A. Gannon. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. xiv, 282 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. The only association where black men and white men mingle on a foot of equality -- Comradeship tried : the GAR in the South -- The African American post -- The black GAR circle -- Heirs of these dead heroes : African Americans and the battle for memory -- Memorial Day in black and white -- Where separate Grand Army posts are unknown, as colored and white are united : the integrated post -- Community, memory, and the integrated post -- Comrades bound by memories many -- And if spared and growing older -- Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable : what they remembered they won -- The won cause at century's end -- A story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom : the won cause in the twentieth century -- Epilogue: all one that day if never again : the final days of the GAR -- Appendix 1: African American posts -- Appendix 2: Integrated posts. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Grand Army of the Republic History. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Veterans. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Societies, etc. United States Race relations History 19th century. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10468955 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 131664 131664