Black soldiers in blue
Subtitle: African American troops in the Civil War era
By: edited by John David Smith.
Contributors: Smith, John David, 1949-
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
Subjects: United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century; African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Smith; title: An ironic route to glory : Louisiana's native guards at Port Hudson / Lawrence Lee Hewitt; title: Battle on the levee : the fight at Milliken's Bend / Richard Lowe; title: The Battle of Olustee / Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.; title: The Fort Pillow massacre : assessing the evidence / John Cimprich; title: From the crater to New Market Heights : a tale of two divisions / William Glenn Robertson; title: The Battle of Saltville / Thomas D. Mays; title: The USCT in the Confederate heartland, 1864 / Anne J. Bailey; title: Lorenzo Thomas and the recruitment of blacks in the Mississippi Valley, 1863-1865 / Michael T. Meier; title: Proven themselves in every respect to be men : black cavalry in the Civil War / Noah Andre Trudeau; title: In the shadow of John Brown : the military service of colonels Thomas Higginson, James Montgomery, and Robert Shaw in the Department of the South / Keith Wilson; title: Henry McNeal Turner : black chaplain in the Union Army / Edwin S. Redkey; title: A disturbance in the city : black and white soldiers in postwar Charleston / Robert J. Zalimas, Jr.; title: USCT veterans in post-Civil War North Carolina / Richard Reid.