Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

by Ira Berlin , Joseph Patrick Reidy , Leslie S. Rowland

• ISBN13: 9780521632584
• ISBN10: 0521632587
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their own words and the words of other eyewitnesses. These moving letters, affidavits, and memorials--drawn from the records of the National Archives--reveal the variety and complexity of the African-American experience during the era of emancipation.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(4)
A Note on Editorial Method	xi	(4)
Editorial Symbols	xiii	(1)
Symbols Used to Describe Documents	xiv	(1)
Short Titles and Abbreviations	xv
Short Titles	xv	(1)
Abbreviations That Appear in the Documents	xvi
1 FREEDOM'S SOLDIERS: THE BLACK MILITARY EXPERIENCE	1	(82)
2 FREEDOM'S SOLDIERS: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY	83	(94)
Illustrations between pages 50 and 82
Sources of Documents	177	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	181	(4)
Index	185