The Battle of New Market Heights
Subtitle: freedom will be theirs by the sword
By: James S. Price
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9781609490386
Subjects: African American Participation; New Market Heights, Battle of, Va., 1864; United States; United States. Army; African American troops; History
Description: "In the predawn darkness of September 29, 1864, black Union soldiers attacked a heavily fortified position on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond. In a few hours of desperate fighting, these African American soldiers struck a blow against Robert E. Lee's vaunted Army of Northern Virginia and proved to detractors that they could fight for freedom and citizenship for themselves and their enslaved brethren. For fourteen of the black soldiers who stormed New Market Heights that day, their bravery would be awarded with the nation's highest honor -- the Congressional Medal of Honor"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The Object...Is to Surprise and Capture Richmond" : Fall 1864; title: "Mr. Butler and His Ethiopian Cohorts" : Beast Butler, United States Colored Troops and the Army of the James; title: "A Long and Tedious Tramp" : The March Up; title: "Unflinching Heroism" : Duncan's Assault; title: "Thirty Minutes of Terrible Suspense" : Draper's Assault; title: Ferro Iis Libertas Perveniet; title: Epilogue: The Perils of Preservation.