Black Soldiers in Blue
Subtitle: African American Troops in the Civil War Era
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780807855799
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Black studies; United States - Civil War; History - Military / War; History; History: American; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Military - United States; Social Science / African-American Studies; United States Colored Troops (USCT); Port Hudson; Millikens Bend; Olustee; Fort Pillow; the Petersburg campaign; Saltville; the Nashville campaign; Mississippi Valley; the United States Colored Cavalry; Colonel Thomas Higginson; Colonel James Montgomery; Colonel Robert Shaw; Henry McNeal Turner; Charleston; South Carolina; North Carolina; Civil War veterans; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: When President Abraham Lincoln's September 22, 1862, preliminary Emancipation Proclamation went quietly into effect on Thursday, January 1, 1863, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles pronounced it "a broad step...a landmark in history" - an "extraordinary and radical measure - almost revolutionary in its character."