The first of two volumes focusing on the African-American experience during the Civil War. Twenty-six articles review the rise of abolitionism in the North, the recruitment of black troops, their performance in battle, race as a factor in combat, women and the war effort, and black troops fighting for the Confederacy.
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AS AMERICANS EMBARKED ON a four-year civil war, few could have imagined (including Frederick Douglass) the enormity of the destruction to human life and property or the irrevocable changes that the conflict would thrust upon the nation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
free black officers, black chaplains, contraband women, betwixt wind, black phalanx, compiled military service records, captured black soldiers, resigned officers, black enlistment, black slaveowners, deck log, black recruitment, forage train, former slave women, colored troops, black troops, negro troops, native guard, pension application, black units, black captives, compiled service record, descriptive books, gunboat flotilla, black recruits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Rover, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Orleans, African Americans, New York, Indian Territory, Colonel Williams, African Creeks, First Indian, Poison Spring, New Bern, Fort Gibson, Fort Pillow, Kansas Colored, Kansas First Colored Volunteers Infantry Regiment, Cabin Creek, Frederick Douglass, Second Kansas, New England, President Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, African Brigade, Mound City, Confederate Congress New!
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AS AMERICANS EMBARKED ON a four-year civil war, few could have imagined (including Frederick Douglass) the enormity of the destruction to human life and property or the irrevocable changes that the conflict would thrust upon the nation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
free black officers, black chaplains, contraband women, betwixt wind, black phalanx, compiled military service records, captured black soldiers, resigned officers, black enlistment, black slaveowners, deck log, black recruitment, forage train, former slave women, colored troops, black troops, negro troops, native guard, pension application, black units, black captives, compiled service record, descriptive books, gunboat flotilla, black recruits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Rover, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Orleans, African Americans, New York, Indian Territory, Colonel Williams, African Creeks, First Indian, Poison Spring, New Bern, Fort Gibson, Fort Pillow, Kansas Colored, Kansas First Colored Volunteers Infantry Regiment, Cabin Creek, Frederick Douglass, Second Kansas, New England, President Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, African Brigade, Mound City, Confederate Congress New!
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- Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers by Joseph T. Glatthaar on 10 pages
- The Negro's Civil War (Blacks in the New World) by James M. McPherson on 7 pages
- The Negro In The Civil War (A Da Capo paperback) by Benjamin Quarles on 6 pages
- Black Southerners In Gray by Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. in Table of Contents, page 7, and page 387
- Collected Works: 1832-65 Suppt (Contributions in American Studies) by Abraham Lincoln in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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