Black soldiers in blue : African American troops in the Civil War era / edited by John David Smith.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smith, John David, 1949-
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
United States. > Army > African American troops > History > 19th century.
African American soldiers > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Physical Description:xxiii, 451 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Smith
  • An ironic route to glory : Louisiana's Native Guards at Port Hudson / Lawrence Lee Hewitt
  • Battle on the levee : the fight at Milliken's Bend / Richard Lowe
  • The Battle of Olustee / Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
  • The Fort Pillow massacre : assessing the evidence / John Cimprich
  • From the crater to New Market Heights : a tale of two divisions / William Glenn Robertson
  • The Battle of Saltville / Thomas D. Mays
  • The USCT in the Confederate heartland, 1864 / Anne J. Bailey
  • Lorenzo Thomas and the recruitment of Blacks in the Mississippi Valley, 1863-1865 / Michael T. Meier
  • Proven themselves in every respect to be men : Black cavalry in the Civil War / Noah Andre Trudeau
  • In the shadow of John Brown : the military service of colonels Thomas Higginson, James Montgomery, and Robert Shaw in the Department of the South / Keith Wilson
  • Henry McNeal Turner : Black chaplain in the Union Army / Edwin S. Redkey
  • A disturbance in the city : Black and white soldiers in postwar Charleston / Robert J. Zalimas, Jr.
  • USCT veterans in post-Civil War North Carolina / Richard Reid.