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 ...
... Black Soldiers in the Final Year : 1865 The Black Flag 195. The End of the Siege of Petersburg 199 . The Fall of ... Troops Furnished by Several States and Territories During the War of the Rebellion 206 D. Tabular Statement of Organizations ...
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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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