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Army Life in a Black Regiment : And
Other Writings (Penguin Classics)A diary
compiled by the commanding officer of the first
Union regiment organized in the south during the
Civil War, and with the exception of the
officers, consisted entirely of freed slaves from
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
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Where I'm Bound
by Allen B.
BallardWhere I'm Bound is the first
novel about a black regiment in the Civil War.
The protagonist is a runaway slave in
Mississippi, who joins the union army and becomes
a trusted soldier and war hero. This is a 'must
read' for anyone with even a slight interest in
Blacks in the Civil War.
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By the end of the Civil War more
than 230,000 Black soldiers and their White
officers served the Union Army and Navy. Nearly
40,000 died during the War -- with more than
1,700 giving their lives on the battlefield. That
was a small price to pay for the freedom of more
than 4,000,000 Americans held in slavery.
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The Black Civil War Soldiers of
Illinois : The Story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S.
Colored Infantry |
On the Altar of Freedom : A Black
Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front |
The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the
Civil War - Volume II |
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