Freedom for Themselves : North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era /
More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he pro...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2008.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Raising and training the black regiments
- A fine, fighting regiment
- Issues of "civilized" warfare
- A unit of last resort
- Black workers in blue uniforms
- Families of the soldiers during the war
- Service in the postwar South
- Black veterans in a gray state.