The  Negro's Civil War
Subtitle: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
By: James M. McPherson ; [with a new preface by the author].
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: African Americans -- History -- To 1863; African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877; African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-356) and index.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1965.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1.
title: The Election of 1860 and the Coming of the War
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2.
title: The Negro's Response to the War, 1861
pagenum: 19; label: Chapter 3.
title: The Drive for Emancipation: The Northern Scene, 1861-65
pagenum: 37; label: Chapter 4.
title: Emancipation in the South, 1861-65
pagenum: 55; label: Chapter 5.
title: Anti-Negro Mob Violence in the North, 1862-63
pagenum: 69; label: Chapter 6.
title: The Colonization Issue
pagenum: 79; label: Chapter 7.
title: The Negro's Response to the Charge of Racial Inferiority
pagenum: 101; label: Chapter 8.
title: Government, Philanthropy, and the Freedmen
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter 9.
title: Negro Missions to the Freedmen
pagenum: 135; label: Chapter 10.
title: Negro Contributions to the Union War Effort
pagenum: 145; label: Chapter 11.
title: Negro Troops in the Union Army: Initiation of a Policy, 1862-62
pagenum: 163; label: Chapter 12.
title: Black Troops from the North
pagenum: 175; label: Chapter 13.
title: Negro Soldiers Prove Themselves in Battle, 1863
pagenum: 187; label: Chapter 14.
title: The Struggle for Equal Pay
pagenum: 197; label: Chapter 15.
title: Negro Soldiers in the Union Army, 1863-64
pagenum: 209; label: Chapter 16.
title: Black Troops in the Final Year of War
pagenum: 227; label: Chapter 17.
title: The Confederate Decision to Raise a Negro Army, 1864-65
pagenum: 245; label: Chapter 18.
title: Civil Rights and Desegregation in the North
pagenum: 249; label: Chapter 19.
title: Wartime Discussions of Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage
pagenum: 275; label: Chapter 20.
title: Land for the Landless
pagenum: 297; label: Chapter 21.
title: The Negro's Attitude Toward Lincoln, 1864-65
pagenum: 305; label: Chapter 22.
title: The Negro Faces the Future
pagenum: 313; label: Appendix A
title: Negro and White Population of the United States in 1860
pagenum: 321; label: Appendix B
title: Negro and White Population of Selected American Cities in 1869
pagenum: 323; label: Notes
pagenum: 325; label: A Note on Sources
pagenum: 345; label: An Afterword on Bibliography
pagenum: 351; label: Index
pagenum: 357