Camp-fires of the Afro-American; or, The colored man as a patriot, soldier, sailor, and hero, in the cause of free America: displayed in colonial struggles, in the Revoluntion, the War of 1812, and in later wars, particularly the great Civil War, 1861-5, and the Spanish American War, 1898: concluding with an account of the war with the Filipinos, 1899 By Jas. M. Guthrie

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guthrie, Jas. M. (James M.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

United States--History, Military.

United States.

United States. Army--African American troops.

Physical Description:

710 pages : illustrations: plates, portraits frontispiece ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Colored man as a patriot, soldier, sailor, and hero, in the cause of free America

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Afro-American Pub. Co., 1899.

Contents:

Arrival and relations in the colonies

Colonial wars

The Boston Massacre

Lexington and Concord; the British retreat

The Battle of Bunker Hill

The spirit of 'seventy-six

Capture of British Major-General Prescott

Burgoyne's surrender

The midnight of the Revolution

The Battle of Monmouth

The capture of Stony Point

Campaigns in the South

Close of the Revolutionary War

Beginning of the War of 1812

Victories on Lakes Erie and Champlain

North Point and Fort McHenry

The Battle of New Orleans

War with Mexico; John Brown's Raid

Outbreak of the Civil War

March of the first defenders

Mobbing of the Sixth Massachusetts

Land and naval operations in 1861

Robert Smalls captures the "Planter"

Important events of 1862

FIghting under the flag of freedom

The Fight at Columbia Bridge

The increasing camp-fires of 1863

A battle-field sermon

The assault upon Fort Wagner

A naval traitor on the Mississippi

The Petersburg mine and crater

Sheridan's Shenandoah Campaign

Prison-pens of the South

The camp-fires of 1864

The tottering Confederacy seeks the support of colored soldiers

Closing scenes if the great Civil War

The colored man's share of the Civil War

The United States colored regulars

The Spanish-American War

The great naval battle in Manila Bay

Operations in Cuba

Destruction of Cervera's fleet

From Porto Rico to Manila

War with the Filipinos.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

OCLC:

1191837284