Arlington by William A Blair
The hallowed ground known today as Arlington National Cemetery bears witness to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect the nation’s ideals of freedom and justice for all. But another history lies beneath the landscape—an African American freedom struggle that has been erased from the landscape. Before the Civil War, enslaved African Americans labored, escaped, raised families, and died at Arlington on a plantation founded by George Washington Parke Custis and inherited by the wife of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. After the Union army confiscated the Lee estate, Freedman’s Village was established on the site, offering refuge to a vibrant community of thousands of newly emancipated African Americans. In creating a neighborhood with homes, schools, businesses, and networks with free Blacks in the nation’s capital and beyond, Arlington’s freedpeople played a consequential—if largely forgotten—role in advancing African American liberty and equality through the rest of the nineteenth century.This deeply researched and accessibly written story brings Arlington’s African American past to vivid life. Drawing on extensive historical research conducted at Arlington House and on the national cemetery grounds, William A. Blair offers a definitive account of individuals and families on an inspiring journey from slavery to freedom.
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Gettysburg--Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill
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Learning from the Wounded
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In the Hands of Providence
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Gettysburg--the Second Day
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Fighting for the Confederacy
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Gettysburg--the First Day
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Glorious Contentment
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Lincoln and the Decision for War
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Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
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Lee Considered
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Shenandoah 1862
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Meade at Gettysburg
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Opium Slavery
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Vicksburg
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Battle Hymns
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Benjamin Franklin Butler
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Burying the Dead but not the Past
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Pea Ridge
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Pickett's Charge--the Last Attack at Gettysburg
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Bentonville
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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
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The Heart of Hell
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The Alabama and the Kearsarge
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Living by Inches
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Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
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When Sherman Marched North from the Sea
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Retreat from Gettysburg
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Lee and His Army in Confederate History
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U. S. Grant
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River of Death-the Chickamauga Campaign, Volume 1
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Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
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The War That Made America
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Sherman's Civil War
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Roots of Secession
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Andersonville
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Richard Taylor
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Why Confederates Fought
William A. Blair is Walter L. and Helen P. Ferree professor emeritus of history at Penn State University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781469698748 |
| ISBN 10 | 1469698749 |
| Title | Arlington |
| Author | William A Blair |
| Series | Civil War America |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2026-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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