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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... Black Union Soldiers in the Civil War , first published in 1988 . Frontispiece : Drummer Jackson , Seventy - ninth Infantry , United States Colored Troops . ( Courtesy Milwaukee Public Museum of Milwaukee County , Wis . ) LIBRARY OF ...
... Army 83. The Corps d'Afrique 97 . The Bureau for Colored Troops 103. Free School for Military Tactics - Colored Troops 109 . Between pages 84 and 85 there are eight plates containing sixteen photographs . ix 1 7 23 71 5. Black Soldiers ...
... Black Regiments 208 210 212 G. Fighting Black Regiments 214 H. Black Union Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor 216 I. Unsung Black Soldiers 219 Chapter Notes 221 Bibliography 237 Index 247 Preface " The American negroes are ...
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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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