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

Contributor(s): Smith, John David, 1949-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002Description: xxiii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0807855790 (pbk.); 9780807855799 (pbk.); 080782741X (cased); 9780807827413 (cased)Subject(s): United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century | African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- CampaignsBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Blue -- An 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 -- The battle of Olustee / Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. -- The Fort Pillow massacre: assessing the evidence / John Cimprich -- From the crater to new market heights: a tale of two divisions / William Glenn Robertson -- The battle of Saltville / Thomas D. Mays -- The USCT in the Confederate heartland / 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 -- A 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.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West E540 .N3 B55 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903073860

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Blue -- An 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 -- The battle of Olustee / Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. -- The Fort Pillow massacre: assessing the evidence / John Cimprich -- From the crater to new market heights: a tale of two divisions / William Glenn Robertson -- The battle of Saltville / Thomas D. Mays -- The USCT in the Confederate heartland / 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 -- A 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.

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