The Negro's Civil War
Subtitle: how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union
By: James M. McPherson.
Edition: 1st Vintage Civil War library ed.
Series: Vintage Civil War library
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781400033904
Copyright date: 1993
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
Description: Drawing on speeches, books, and letters to point out the military and political contributions and the feelings of African-Americans during the Civil War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-356) and index.
Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, 1991.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the 1991 edition; title: Preface fto the First edition; title: The election of 1860 and the coming of war; title: The Negro's response to the war, 1861; title: The drive for emancipation : the Northern scene, 1861-65; title: Emancipation in the South, 1861-65; title: Anti-Negro mob violence in the North, 1862-63; title: The colonization issue; title: The Negro's response to the charge of racial inferiority; title: Government, philanthropy, and the Freedmen; title: Negro missions to the Freedmen; title: Negro contributions to the Union war effort; title: Negro troops in the Union Army : initiation of a policy, 1862-63; title: Black troops from the North; title: Negro soldiers prove themselves in battle, 1863; title: The struggle for equal pay; title: Negro soldiers in the Union Army, 1863-64; title: Black troops in the final year of war; title: The Confederate decision to raise a Negro army, 1864-65; title: Civil rights and desegregation in the North; title: Wartime discussions of Reconstruction and Negro suffrage; title: Land for the landless; title: The Negro's attitude toward Lincoln, 1864-65; title: The Negro faces the future; title: Appendix A : Negro and White population of the United States in 1860; title: Appendix B : Negro and White population of selected American cities in 1860