A Voice of Thunder: A BLACK SOLDIERS CIVIL WAR (Blacks in the New World)
by George E. Stephens
Category: History

Stephens was a black reporter for the black newspaper Weekly Anglo-African when the Civil War broke out. He joined the 54th Massachusetts, the first black Union regiment. Promoted to sergeant, he stormed Battery Wagner with his regiment. Surviving the Union defeat, Stephens served with the 54th through the end of the war.