The sable arm
Subtitle: Black troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865
By: Dudley Taylor Cornish ; with a new foreword by Herman Hattaway.
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kansas
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780700603282
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: United States. Army -- Afro-American troops -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Longmans, Green, 1956.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Herman Hattaway; title: Preface; title: "We are ready and would go"; title: "The ultras in their eagerness have spoilt all"; title: "And who better to begin the work"; title: "Soon have an army"; title: "No man can hender me"; title: "The very air seemed to be filled with obstacles"; title: "I am here to raise as many regiments of blacks as I can"; title: "But the high soul burns on"; title: "The difficulty is not in stating the principle"; title: "There seems to be inequality and injustice"; title: "Taking life and honor in their hands"; title: "We looks like men a-marchin' on"; title: "Even the slave becomes a man"; title: Notes on sources; title: Critical bibliography; title: Bibliographic update