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Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era Cover Image Book

Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era / Richard M. Reid.

Reid, Richard M., 1943- (Author).

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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.

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  • 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]

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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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United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 35th (1864-1866)
United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 36th (1864-1866)
United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 37th (1864-1867)
United States. Army. Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, 14th (1864-1865)
African American soldiers > North Carolina > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.

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Jacksonville Main Library NC 973.7415 REI (Text) 36015000658621 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 08/06/2026
Jacksonville Main Library REF NC OCR 973.7415 REI (Text) 36015000010252 Genealogy Available -

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