One More War to Fight: Union Veterans� Battle for Equality Through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause

Abstract

Building from the “Left Armed Corps” (a cohort of veterans who lost their right arms to battle or disease and then entered one of two “left-handed penmanship” competitions soon after the war), Goldman argues that as “Jim Crow took hold on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, Union veterans individually and collectively maintained their important interconnected roles as potent moral and political forces, particularly through the Grand Army of the Republic.