For Northerners, their fight was to sustain the government established by the Constitution with its guaranties of rights and liberties." Reception For Southerners, the Revolution was a war of secession from the tyranny of the British Empire, just as their war was a war of secession from Yankee tyranny.
In an interview, McPherson claimed: "Both sides in the Civil War professed to be fighting for the same 'freedoms' established by the American Revolution and the Constitution their forefathers fought for in the Revolution-individual freedom, democracy, a republican form of government, majority rule, free elections, etc. McPherson sees to it that it steals up on his readers in the same way." Ī central concern of this work is the multiple interpretations of freedom. Slowly, slowly the remote possibility became horrible actuality and Mr. So it must have seemed to most Americans at the time.
Historian Hugh Brogan, reviewing the book, commends McPherson for initially describing "the republic at midcentury" as "a divided society, certainly, and a violent one, but not one in which so appalling a phenomenon as civil war is likely. Thus, it examined the Civil War era, not just the war, as it combined the social, military and political events of the period within a single narrative framework. An abridged, illustrated version of the book was published in 2003.īattle Cry of Freedom covers two decades, the period from the outbreak of the Mexican–American War to the Civil War's ending at Appomattox. It is the sixth volume of the Oxford History of the United States series. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 (2017) by Richard Whiteīattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book on the American Civil War, published in 1988, by James M. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848
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