Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Union army. These U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), as the War Department designated most black units, materially helped to win the Civil War - performing a variety of duties, fighting in some significant engagements, and proving to the Confederates that Northern manpower had practically no limits. Soldiering for Freedom explains how Lincoln's administratio…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, John David
- ISBN: 978-1-4214-1360-0
- EAN: 9781421413600
- Produktnummer: 16602816
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 131 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 209 g
- Gewicht: 209
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 - 22 J.
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Bob Luke is the author of The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball, also published by Johns Hopkins. John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and author of Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro.
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