| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle. By Margaret S. Creighton. (New York: Basic, 2005. xxviii, 321 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-465-01456-9.)
An African proverb contends, When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers. This is unarguably true for Civil War civilians whose backyards were engulfed by the maelstrom of warfare. In ten dramatic thought-provoking chapters, most averaging more than twenty pages, Margaret S. Creighton's The Colors of Courage explores this theme in conjunction with the war's greatest battle and turning point.	1
The book ostensibly profiles outsiders: immigrants in the form of the Army of the Potomac's hard-luck Eleventh Corps comprising German Americans, whose unjustified reputation for cowardice at Chancellorsville followed them to Pennsylvania; the Louisiana Tigers (the collective appellation of Pelican State soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia); white Gettysburg women; and African Americans. Creighton also appeals for a reappraisal of Edward Everett's two-hour oration that denounced slavery and praised home front heroines but had the bad luck to precede Abraham Lincoln's two-minute follow-up remarks—the Gettysburg Address (pp. ix–xiii).	. . .

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