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Author Spurgeon, Ian Michael, 1976-

Title Soldiers in the army of freedom : the 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's first African American combat unit / Ian Michael Spurgeon.

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  973.742 Spu    ---  Available
Description xii, 442 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Series Campaigns & commanders ; volume 47
Source NBK 6/15 PPL
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-431) and index.
Contents Bleeding Kansas -- Secession and war -- 1862: the door opens -- Recruitment -- Island Mound -- The battle within -- 1863: emancipation and muster -- Sherwood -- Cabin Creek -- Honey Springs -- Fall 1863 -- Poison Spring -- The end of the Camden Campaign -- Flat Rock Creek -- End of the war.
Subject United States. Army. Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment, 1st (1863-1864)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780806146188 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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