Black Union Soldiers in the Civil WarThis book refutes the historical slander that blacks did not fight for their emancipation from slavery. At first harshly rejected in their attempts to enlist in the Union army, blacks were eventually accepted into the service--often through the efforts of individual generals who, frustrated with bureaucratic inaction in the face of dwindling forces, overrode orders from the secretary of war and the president himself. By the end of the war, black soldiers had numbered over 187,000 and served in 167 regiments. Seventeen were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor. Theirs was a remarkable achievement whose full story is here told for the first time. |
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... Fort Wagner 150 . 6. Total Commitment : 1864 New Confidence in Black Soldiers 163. Major Battles 164 . The Battle of Olustee ( " Ocean Pond " ) 164. The Alleged " Massacre " at Fort Pillow 169. General Grant's Plan 176 . 163 The Battle ...
Hondon B. Hargrove. The Battle of Wilson's Wharf Landing ( Fort Powhatan ) 181 . The Battle of Petersburg 182. The Battle of the Crater 183 . The Battle of Chaffin's Farm 187. The Battle of Athens , Alabama 189 . 7. Black Soldiers in the ...
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Contents
1861 | 7 |
1862 | 23 |
1863 | 71 |
1863 | 115 |
1864 | 163 |
1865 | 195 |
E Summary of Union Losses During the Civil War | 210 |
H Black Union Recipients of the Congressional Medal | 216 |
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