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Davis, William C. “A Government of Our Own”: The Making of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
 
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. New York: Vintage, 1996.
 
Gienapp, William E. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
 
McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
 
———. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. New York: Vintage, 2003.
 
Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. New York: Vintage, 1989.
 
 
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