Black soldiers in blue : African American troops in the Civil War era / edited by John David Smith.
Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from emancipation to the end of the Civil War. Seven essays focus on the role of the USCT in combat, chronicling the contributions of African Americans who fought at Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend, Olustee, Fort Pillow, Petersburg, Saltville, and Nashville. Other essays explore the recruitment of Black troops in the Mississippi Valley the U.S. Colored Cavalry the military leadership of Colonels Thomas Higginson, James Montgomery, and Robert Shaw African American chaplain Henry McNeal Turner the Black troops who occupied postwar Charleston and the experiences of USCT veterans in postwar North Carolina. Collectively, these essays probe the broad military, political, and social significance of Black soldiers' armed service, enriching our understanding of the Civil War and African American life during and after the conflict.
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- ISBN: 080782741X
- ISBN: 9780807827413
- ISBN: 0807855790
- ISBN: 9780807855799
- Physical Description: xxiii, 451 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
- Copyright: ©2002
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Smith -- 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, 1864 / 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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