Manning, Chandra

" ... Ranging from the stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to debates in the halls of Congress, 'Troubled Refuge' probes the particular and deeply significant reality of the contraband camps: what they were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there, forging a dramatically new but highly imperfect alliance between the government and African Americans"--Amazon.com.

The author presents a comprehensive account of how both Union and Confederate soldiers felt about the Civil War, how many on both sides eventually identified slavery as the root cause, and how the conflict changed the fabric of the nation.