Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War / Howard C. Westwood ; with a foreword by John Y. Simon.

By:

Westwood, Howard C, 1909-

Contributor(s):

Simon, John Y

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781441619549
1441619542

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War.DDC classification:

973.7415 22

LOC classification:

E540.N3 W47 2008eb

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Contents:

Lincoln's position on black enlistments -- Grant's role in beginning black soldiery -- Benjamin Butler's enlistment of black troops in New Orleans in 1862 -- Generals David Hunter and Rufus Saxton and black soldiers -- Robert Smalls personal adventure -- Captive black Union soldiers in Charleston: what to do? -- Sherman marched and proclaimed "land for the landless" -- The cause and consequence of a Union black soldier's mutiny and execution -- Company A of Rhode Island's black regiment: its enlisting, its mutiny, its pay and service -- The Reverend Fountain Brown: alleged violator of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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