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Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War / Howard C. Westwood ; with a foreword by John Y. Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Westwood, Howard C., 1909-1994
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--To 1863.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 189 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Lincoln's position on black enlistments
- Grant's role in beginning black soldiery
- Benjamin Butler's enlistment of black troops in New Orleans in 1862
- Generals David Hunter and Rufus Saxton and black soldiers
- Robert Smalls personal adventure
- Captive black Union soldiers in Charleston: what to do?
- Sherman marched and proclaimed "land for the landless"
- The cause and consequence of a Union black soldier's mutiny and execution
- Company A of Rhode Island's black regiment: its enlisting, its mutiny, its pay and service
- The Reverend Fountain Brown: alleged violator of the Emancipation Proclamation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809328819
- 080932881X
- OCLC:
- 228363969
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