Army Life in a Black Regiment
In 1862 military necessity enabled Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to pry from a hesitant President Lincoln the authority to enlist black troops in the Union army. The pioneer regiment of ex-slaves was to secure the beachhead tenously held at Beaufort, off the South Carolina coast. Within a year, Lincoln was to hail the enlistment of black soldiers, which he had earlier resisted as revolutionary, as the heaviest blow yet dealt the rebellion. The abolition of slavery, unthinkable in 1861, was to be inevitable by 1863.The commanding officer chosen for the First South Carolina Volunteers was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a militant human rights…
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Weitere Autoren: Meyer, Howard N. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-30157-1
- EAN: 9780393301571
- Produktnummer: 15636132
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1984
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H18.8 cm x B12.4 cm x D1.7 cm 240 g
- Gewicht: 240
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Howard N. Meyer is a civil rights historian and author of a biography of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Colonel of a Black Regiment.
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