Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era / Richard M. Reid.
More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina: the 35th, 36th, and 37th United States Colored Troops and the 14th United States Colored Heavy Artillery. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of these soldiers and their families, Reid provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and after the war.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807831748
- ISBN: 0807831743
- ISBN: 9781469615066
- Physical Description: xvii, 420 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-406) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 Raising and Training the Black Regiments 19 -- 2 A Fine, Fighting Regiment 67 -- 3 Issues of "Civilized" Warfare 111 -- 4 A Unit of Last Resort 153 -- 5 Black Workers in Blue Uniforms 187 -- 6 Families of the Soldiers during the War 215 -- 7 Service in the Postwar South 255 -- 8 Black Veterans in a Gray State 297.
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| Jacksonville Main Library | NC 973.7415 REI (Text) | 36015000658621 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/06/2026 |
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