num_pages: 212
description: 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.
language: English
title: Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War
titlecomplete: Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War
genres: History, Civil War
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Cambridge University Press