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Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army, in North Carolina, in the Spring of 1862, After the Battle of Newbern, by Vincent Colyer
Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army in North Carolina
Brief Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army in North Carolina
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Author: Ervin L. Jordan
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780813915456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of the role of Afro-Virginians in the Civil War.
Bluejackets and Contrabands
Author: Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009-10-09
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0813139279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the lesser-known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast. From the beginning of the war, many African American refugees sought avenues of escape to the North. Due to their sheer numbers, those who reached Union forces presented a problem for the military. Fortunately, the First Confiscation Act of 1861 permitted the seizure of property used in support of the South's war effort, including slaves. Eventually regarded as contraband of war, the runaways became known as contrabands. In Bluejackets and Contrabands, Barbara Brooks Tomblin examines the relationship between the Union Navy and the contrabands. The navy established colonies for the former slaves, and, in return, some contrabands served as crewmen on navy ships and gunboats and as river pilots, spies, and guides. Tomblin presents a rare picture of the contrabands and casts light on the vital contributions of African Americans to the Union Navy and the Union cause.
Biennial Reports of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to the Secretary of War
Author: United States. War Department. General Staff
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brings together three installments of General George C. Marshall's wartime reports. Provides a comprehensive picture of global war as seen from the perspective of the Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Includes Marshall's comments on such topics as: technology; the "90-division gamble;" the replacement system; troop morale and the citizen-soldier; and demobilization.
Edward Stanly
Author: Norman Brown
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003-08-19
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0817312919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel Conqueror is an unprecedented biography of Stanly's life.
The 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
Author: James K. Bryant, II
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0786490209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the Civil War, African American war correspondent Thomas Morris Chester was so inspired by the men of the 36th United States Colored Troops that he declared the group to be "a model regiment." Composed primarily of former slaves recruited from Union-occupied areas of eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, the 36th USCT participated in large-scale expeditions to liberate slaves, guarded Confederate prisoners at major POW camps, served in the trenches before Petersburg and Richmond, and stood as one of the first units to enter the abandoned Confederate capital on April 3, 1865. This volume, which includes a complete regimental roster, explores the background of these former slaves and their families, examines their initial recruitment and chronicles their military contributions throughout the war. More than a unit history, the story of the 36th USCT offers a vivid portrait of the challenging transition from slavery to freedom.
Troubled Refuge
Author: Chandra Manning
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-07-25
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0307456374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Chandra Manning casts in a wholly original light what it was like to escape slavery, how emancipation happened, and how citizenship in the United States was transformed. This reshaping of hard structures of power would matter not only for slaves turned citizens, but for all Americans. Integrating a wealth of new findings, this vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps shows how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Drawing on records of the Union and Confederate armies, the letters and diaries of soldiers, transcribed testimonies of former slaves, and more, Manning allows us to accompany the black men, women, and children who sought out the Union army in hopes of achieving autonomy for themselves and their communities. It also raised, for the first time, humanitarian questions about refugees in wartime and legal questions about civil and military authority with which we still wrestle, as well as redefined American citizenship, to the benefit, but also to the lasting cost of, African Americans.
