TY - JOUR
AU - Jordan, Ervin L.
AB - Book Reviews 1441 a more vital role in the outcome of the cam- burying the dead. One local heroine, Eliza- paign than at Gettysburg. Academic historians beth Thorn, Evergreen Cemetery’s caretaker in and publishers should be willing to look at lo- her soldier-husband’s absence, braved artillery gistics for its own importance rather than as fire as a road guide for Union officers (pp. 35– 37, 119–20). Jennie Wade, subsequently the yet another Gettysburg story. town’s most famous woman, was shot dead by Earl J. Hess a Confederate sniper while baking bread and Lincoln Memorial University venerated as a martyr, but postbattle gossip in- Harrogate, Tennessee sinuated otherwise (pp. 122, 194–98). Chapter 3, “Desolation’s Edge” (pp. 49– The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Forgot- 67), and chapter 6, “The Wide Eye of the ten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Storm” (pp. 123–41), exemplify new schol- Americans in the Civil War’s Defining Battle. arly scrutiny of how African Americans in B y Margaret S. Creighton. (New York: Basic, the North dealt with the war. There were free 2005. xxviii, 321 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-465- black property owners near Cemetery Ridge 01456-9.) such as Abraham Brian and Basil Biggs; the latter owned the 
TI - The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/4485942
DA - 2006-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-colors-of-courage-gettysburg-s-forgotten-history-immigrants-women-H2jeINUJs6
SP - 1441
EP - 1441
VL - 92
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -