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Black soldiers in blue : African American troops in the Civil War era /

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Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from...

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Corporate Author: Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Other Authors: Smith, John David, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Series:Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2002005060.html
Subjects:
United States. > Colored Troops > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army > African American troops > History > 19th century.
États-Unis. > Army > Troupes noires américaines > Histoire > 19e siècle.
United States. > Army
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
African American soldiers > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Militaires noirs américains > Histoire > 19e siècle.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Campagnes et batailles.
Armed Forces > African American troops
African American soldiers
Military campaigns
United States
Soldat
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
USA
Schwärze
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Krijgsmacht.
Zwarten.
USA.
Schwarze.
1800-1899
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Smith
  • An ironic route to glory : Louisiana's native guards at Port Hudson / Lawrence Lee Hewitt
  • Battle on the levee : the fight at Milliken's Bend / Richard Lowe
  • The Battle of Olustee / Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
  • The Fort Pillow massacre : assessing the evidence / John Cimprich
  • From the crater to New Market Heights : a tale of two divisions / William Glenn Robertson
  • The Battle of Saltville / Thomas D. Mays
  • The USCT in the Confederate heartland, 1864 / Anne J. Bailey
  • Lorenzo Thomas and the recruitment of blacks in the Mississippi Valley, 1863-1865 / Michael T. Meier
  • Proven themselves in every respect to be men : black cavalry in the Civil War / Noah Andre Trudeau
  • In the shadow of John Brown : the military service of colonels Thomas Higginson, James Montgomery, and Robert Shaw in the Department of the South / Keith Wilson
  • Henry McNeal Turner : black chaplain in the Union Army / Edwin S. Redkey
  • A disturbance in the city : black and white soldiers in postwar Charleston / Robert J. Zalimas, Jr.
  • USCT veterans in post-Civil War North Carolina / Richard Reid.