Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Description
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil WarSoon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of the North responded with outrage-southerners promised to execute any black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the necessary courage. Meanwhile, Massachusetts, long the center of abolitionist fervor, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. I...
ISBN(s)
0465096646, 9780465096640
