. Soldiers were friends and neighbors who went off to fight — until the next planting or harvest. This war was very different. By the end of the Civil War, units had become less homogeneous, men from different communities and even different states were forced together by the exigencies of battle where trust

No Balm in Gilead: Lancaster's African-American Population and the Civil War Era By Leroy T. Hopkins Jr., Ph.D. As a result of the television mini-series The Civil War and especially the feature film Glory, public awareness of the role played by African-Americans in the nation's most destructive