Freedom's soldiers : the Black military experience in the Civil War / edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P...
Freedom's soldiers : the Black military experience in the Civil War / edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N973.7415/3
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their own words and the words of other eyewitnesses. These moving letters, affidavits, and memorials - d...
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Freedom's soldiers : the Black military experience in the Civil War / edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-184) and index.
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N973.7415/3
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74VM4jMZM0zy
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0521632587
9780521632584
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973.7415
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991001540599702626