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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Westwood, Howard C., 1909- Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1992 (OCoLC)551503945 |
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| 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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