Based on first-person accounts and illustrated with vintage photographs and drawings, this book reveals how black soldiers influenced the outcome of the Civil War and the decades that followed.
A collection of poems that pays tribute to the history of the American South and to the Native Guard, one of the first African-American regiments in service during the Civil War.
This book gives a brief history of the African-Americans who fought on both sides of the Revolutionary War playing prominent roles in famous battles such as Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Brandywine.
An exploration of the roles of African-Americans during the Civil War that describes how free blacks and ex-slaves volunteered to fight in over four hundred battles, despite prejudices and unfair treatment.
Presents the memoirs of Forrestine "Birdie" Cooper in which she describes her frontier childhood and young adulthood as the daughter of Charles Cooper, a white officer in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, one of the first African-American units formed after the Civil War.
Examines the struggles African Americans faced before and during the Civil War discussing their role in the Union Army, the Fugitive Slave Law, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and racism in both the North and the South.
the story of two Black regiments that changed the course of the Civil War
Ash, Stephen V.
2008
Chronicles the stories of both the First and Second South Carolina regiments during the Civil War, describing how these two units helped to pave the way for the recruitment of other African-American troops for the Union Army.
