After the defeat of the Confederacy, slavery was abolished and freed slaves slowly gained civil and political rights. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. The war ended when Confederate General Robert E. Well over 600,000 people died over the course of the war, which was fought primarily in the South. The Confederate States of America ultimately comprised 11 southern states-many of them dependent on an agricultural system sustained by slave labor-which rebelled against the United States government. While various factors contributed to the outbreak of war, it was centrally fought over the seceding states’ support for the institution of slavery within their borders. McPherson currently lives in New Jersey with his wife Patricia.įor Cause and Comrades focuses on the American Civil War, which was fought from April 1861 to April 1865 between secessionist states (the Confederacy) and those states that remained loyal to the United States Constitution (the Union). He began teaching at Princeton University in 1962, where he remains an Emeritus Professor of United States History. McPherson has actively worked for the preservation of Civil War battlefields and historic sites.
He has twice been a recipient of Gettysburg College’s Lincoln Prize for nonfiction works on the Civil War, first for For Cause and Comrades (1998) and later for Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2009). In 1988, McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, a scholarly history of the Civil War which also gained a popular readership, selling over 600,000 copies. McPherson’s earliest scholarship focused on abolitionism and social reform in the Civil War era. Raised in Minnesota, McPherson studied at Gustavus Adolphus College and then earned his PhD from Johns Hopkins University under another noted American historian, C. McPherson is a renowned historian of the American Civil War.
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