Race and Radicalism in the Union Army

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book owes much to many. Early in this project, it benefited significantly from the goading of my medievalist office mate, L. J. Andrew Villalon, who has always had, among his many other sterling qualities, a good nose for a great story. Our colleague Janine Hartman has always made herself available as a sounding board on drafts and approaches to problems. At crucial points, Paul Buhle and Louis Proyect helped keep my focus on this project. Bryce Suderow, an independent scholar in Civil War history, generously shared what he had found in his painstaking work on the National Tribune, where he found R. M. Peck’s recollections. Kenneth W. Burchell shared his insights into Masonic history. Bruce Laurie offered extremely helpful input after reading an earlier draft of the manuscript. The extent to which we have a book worthy of the subject is owed largely to the diligent and patient editorial advice of Laurie Matheson, Angela Burton, and Bruce Bethell of the University of Illinois Press. My interests in the Transatlantic dimensions of these problems and the necessity of taking a genuinely multicultural approach go back to graduate school and my work under Professors Leo Schelbert and Marion S. Miller at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Elizabeth Balanoff of Roosevelt University. I would like to dedicate this volume to them. Race and Radicalism in the Union Army ...