Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Don't Tread on Me The first book is about

The first book is about Jennie Wade's beau

commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points

A reprint of the original 1978 classic

I Goes to Fight Mit Sigel

Lee’s once-vaunted army into a bedraggled husk of its former glory

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Don't Tread on Me The first book is aboutFreedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 1865 by James Oakes Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and