Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Don't Tread on Me the Stone Wall at the

the Stone Wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg loomed large over the Army of the Potomac

Also included are letters of Jack s brother

The first book is about Jennie Wade's beau

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

A reprint of the original 1978 classic

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Don't Tread on Me the Stone Wall at theFreedom 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