David W Blight. Beyond the Battlefi...

David W Blight. Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P 2002 xi + 301 pp ISBN 155849-344-1 $7000 cloth; ISBN 1-55849-361-1 $1995 paper.

There is an amusing old-fashioned chestnut about former Confederate cavalry commander Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler, while he serv as Major-General of U offers during the war against Spain in 1898 In an assault immediately after entrenched Spaniards, Wheeler, now in his sixties, urg his men forward with the cry out "Let's go boys, let's procure them Yankees." His staff had to