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Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War

Author: Howard C Westwood
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Westwood, Howard C., 1909-
Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1992
(OCoLC)551503945
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Howard C Westwood
ISBN: 0809317516 9780809317516
OCLC Number: 23464156
Description: xi, 189 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Lincoln's position on black enlistments --
Grant's role in beginning black soldiery --
Benjamin Butler's enlistment of black troops in New Orleans in 1862 --
Generals David Hunter and Rufus Saxton and black soldiers --
Robert Smalls personal adventure --
Captive black Union soldiers in Charleston: what to do? --
Sherman marched and proclaimed "land for the landless" --
The cause and consequence of a Union black soldier's mutiny and execution --
Company A of Rhode Island's black regiment: its enlisting, its mutiny, its pay and service --
The Reverend Fountain Brown: alleged violator of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Responsibility: Howard C. Westwood ; with a foreword by John Y. Simon.
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