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Freedom's Witness : The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner /

In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper The Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, D.C., and, later, as one of the Union army's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915
Other Authors: Cole, Jean Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2013
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Aaron Sheehan-Dean
  • Introduction
  • Emancipation and Enlistment (March 22, 1862-April 18, 1863)
  • Petersburg (June 25, 1864-December 17, 1864)
  • Fort Fisher (January 7, 1865-February 18, 1865)
  • Freeing Slaves, Meeting Sherman (February 25, 1865-June 10, 1865)
  • Roanoke Island (June 24, 1865-August 5, 1865).