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Title Black soldiers in blue : African American troops in the Civil War era / edited by John David Smith.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.7415 B561s 2002    ---  Available
Description xxiii, 451 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Smith -- 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 -- Battle of Olustee / Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. -- Fort Pillow massacre : assessing the evidence / John Cimprich -- From the crater to New Market Heights : a tale of two divisions / William Glenn Robertson -- Battle of Saltville / Thomas D. Mays -- 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 -- 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.
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century.
African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Added Author Smith, John David, 1949-
ISBN 080782741X (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. UKM bA306912

 
    
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