When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their own words and the words of other eyewitnesses. These moving letters, affidavits, and memorials--drawn from the records of the National Archives--reveal the variety and complexity of the African-American experience during the era of emancipation.
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"Berlin and his associates, Joseph Reidy and Leslie Rowland,...have selected in Freedom's Soldiers some of the most powerful documents devoted to the black military experience." The Historian
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When nearly 200,000 black men, mostly former slaves, entered the Civil War, they transformed it into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells those men's story in their words and those of eyewitnesses. These letters, affidavits, and memorials reveal the variety and complexity of the African-American experience during the era of emancipation.
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FREEDOM CAME to most American slaves only through force of arms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black military experience, ooo black men, black enlistment, black military service, black soldiers, native guards, black volunteers, colored soldiers, black officers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Civil War, War Department, New York, South Carolina, Wartime Genesis, Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln, Upper South, Colored Infantry, Massachusetts Infantry, Fort Wagner, Lower South, Official Records, Port Hudson, National Archives, New Orleans, Sable Arm, Fort Pillow, Milliken's Bend, North Carolina, Baton Rouge, Colonel Leib, Chicago Historical Society, Freedmen's Bureau, Harper's Weekly New!
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FREEDOM CAME to most American slaves only through force of arms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black military experience, ooo black men, black enlistment, black military service, black soldiers, native guards, black volunteers, colored soldiers, black officers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Civil War, War Department, New York, South Carolina, Wartime Genesis, Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln, Upper South, Colored Infantry, Massachusetts Infantry, Fort Wagner, Lower South, Official Records, Port Hudson, National Archives, New Orleans, Sable Arm, Fort Pillow, Milliken's Bend, North Carolina, Baton Rouge, Colonel Leib, Chicago Historical Society, Freedmen's Bureau, Harper's Weekly New!
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- Forged In Battle by Joseph Glatthaar on 6 pages
- The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Dudley Taylor Cornish on 6 pages
- Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers by Joseph T. Glatthaar on page 31, and Back Matter
- Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack on page 47, and Back Matter
- The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War by James G. Hollandsworth on page 3, and Back Matter
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- Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era by John David (editor) Smith on page 241, and page 247
- The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Studies in Modern Capitalism) by Wilma A. Dunaway in Back Matter
- Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I by Stephen L. Harris in Back Matter
- Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War by David C. Rankin in Back Matter
- The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling in Back Matter
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