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The Union War

Gary W. Gallagher

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ISBN 9780674066083

Publication Date: 09/03/2012

256 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

41 halftones

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Introduction
1. The Grand Review
2. Union
3. Emancipation
4. The Armies
5. Affirmation
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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Watch Gary Gallagher and other noted Civil War scholars in a roundtable discussion, “The American Civil War: Legacies for Our Own Time,” at Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center
Read an essay by Gallagher in the Kennebec Journal on why the Union went to war
Read Gallagher’s description of the First Battle of Bull Run in the New York Times Civil War blog Disunion
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2012 Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Prize, Austin Civil War Round Table

2012 Tom Watson Brown Book Award, Society of Civil War Historians

2011 Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium

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