Search Results for: The Black Military Experience

Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their own words and those of eyewitnesses.

This book "...examines the recruitment of black men into the Union Army and the experiences of black soldiers under arms"--Introd.

Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Intended as a response to dem