Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Amy Murrell Taylor -BH) Canteen that both sides had been

that both sides had been wrong

to simply turn our heads and ignore it

Stuart took the ditch at a running leap

and the experience of that hallowed ground

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Amy Murrell Taylor -BH) Canteen that both sides had beenEmbattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil Wars Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all.