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Soldiering for Freedom : How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops /
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Uni...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2014]
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Table des matières:
- How racism impeded the recruitment of black soldiers
- How slaves and freedmen earned their brass buttons
- How white officers learned to command black troops
- How blacks became soldiers
- How black troops gained the glory and paid the price.