Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lincoln's position on black enlistments
  • Grant's role in beginning black soldiery
  • Benjamin Butler's enlistment of black troops in New Orleans in 1862
  • Generals David Hunter and Rufus Saxton and black soldiers
  • Robert Smalls personal adventure
  • Captive black Union soldiers in Charleston: what to do?
  • Sherman marched and proclaimed "land for the landless"
  • The cause and consequence of a Union black soldier's mutiny and execution
  • Company A of Rhode Island's black regiment: its enlisting, its mutiny, its pay and service
  • The Reverend Fountain Brown: alleged violator of the Emancipation Proclamation.