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Dobak, William A

 
9780160866951: Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 18621867
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ISBN 10 : 0160866952 ISBN 13 : 9780160866951
Editeur : Department of the Army, 2011

Synopsis


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The Civil War changed the United States in many ways economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly 4 million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves of both sexes new opportunities in education and property ownership.
Just as striking were the effects of the war on the United States Army. From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains; and still others took part in major operations like the siege of Petersburg and the battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments garrisoned the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. Freedom by the Sword tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service. Because of the book's broad focus on every theater of the war and its concentration on what black soldiers actually contributed to Union victory, this volume stands alone among histories of the U.S. Colored Troops.

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À propos de l'auteur

William A. Dobak received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas in 1995. He now works at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

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Éditeur
Department of the Army
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0160866952
ISBN 13 
9780160866951
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
572
Éditeur
Center Of Military History (U S Army)
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