Black Soldiers in Blue : African American Troops in the Civil War Era.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John David.

Contributor:

Smith, John David, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American soldiers.

History.

African American soldiers--History--19th century.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

United States. Army--African American troops--History--19th century.

Local Subjects:

African American soldiers.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Informed by research in African-American, military and social history, the 14 essays in this volume tell the stories of the African-American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. Collectively, they probe the military, political and social significance of black soldiers' armed service.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Let Us All Be Grateful That We Have Colored Troops That Will Fight; 2 An Ironic Route to Glory: Louisiana's Native Guards at Port Hudson; 3 Battle on the Levee: The Fight at Milliken's Bend; 4 The Battle of Olustee; 5 The Fort Pillow Massacre: Assessing the Evidence; 6 From the Crater to New Market Heights: A Tale of Two Divisions; 7 The Battle of Saltville; 8 The USCT in the Confederate Heartland, 1864; 9 Lorenzo Thomas and the Recruitment of Blacks in the Mississippi Valley, 1863–1865

10 Proven Themselves in Every Respect to Be Men: Black Cavalry in the Civil War11 In the Shadow of John Brown: The Military Service of Colonels Thomas Higginson, James Montgomery, and Robert Shaw in the Department of the South; 12 Henry McNeal Turner: Black Chaplain in the Union Army; 13 A Disturbance in the City: Black and White Soldiers in Postwar Charleston; 14 USCT Veterans in Post–Civil War North Carolina; Contributors; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9798890870858

9780807875995

0807875996

OCLC:

476237521