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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Tonight From Washington 20120907



book tv talked with a history professor shaunna amana shom drum manning. this was part of book tv college series and was recorded at the library on campus. and now on your screen as professor chandra manning the author of this book what this cruel war was over soldiers slavery of the war. what was your approach to this book? the first thing of the approaches that you give me wait too much credit when you say approach. the book is not at all the book i thought i was going to write when i started. i started with an interest in civil war soldiers to read. absolutely no intention at all of writing about soldiers and slavery. i was interested in enlisted soldiers in the regular farmers and the keepers and the non-slaveholders and the number who growers didn t think we ran into gear about slavery very much at all, and i was interested in the war command especially interested in how they differ from each other, not just north and south of how somebody from boston is di ....

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