Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Hardcover of how a nation healed

of how a nation healed from civil war without justice

who promoted him in a search for more aggressive cavalry officers

the 1st Virginia Cavalry

their passionate conflict of words and ideas has been overshadowed by their opposition to Abraham Lincoln

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Hardcover of how a nation healedFreedom 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