Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent
Subtitle: His Dispatches from the Virginia Front
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: October 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780807115169
Subjects: Participation, African American; Virginia; Military History - U.S. Civil War; History - General History; United States - Civil War; History: American; United States; Participation, African America; American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Chester, Thomas Morris; Civil war; USA; Civil War, 1861-1865; 19th century; African Americans; History
First sentence: It is one of the ironies of American history that the first forces to enter Richmond following its evacuation by the Confederacy were black.