Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Thunder at the Gates
Author: Douglas Egerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 0465096646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the gates, Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the formation and exploits of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry -- regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0465096646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the gates, Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the formation and exploits of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry -- regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery.
House Documents
Author: USA House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Presidential Messages and State Papers
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs
Author: United States. Dept. of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Soldiers and Scholars
Author: Carol Reardon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The use and abuse of military history is the theme of this book. The author scrutinizes the army's first systematic attempt to use military history to educate its future leaders and traces the army's struggle, from the end of the Civil War, to claim intellectual authority over the study of war.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The use and abuse of military history is the theme of this book. The author scrutinizes the army's first systematic attempt to use military history to educate its future leaders and traces the army's struggle, from the end of the Civil War, to claim intellectual authority over the study of war.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States with the Annual Message of the President
Author: Department of State (USA).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Edward A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War
Author: Frances H. Casstevens
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476607044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Edward Wild, the controversial Union general who headed the all-black African Brigade in the Civil War, was one of the most loved and most hated figures of the 19th century. The man was neither understood nor appreciated by military or civilian, black or white, Northerner or Southerner. After enlisting at the outbreak of the war, Wild was promoted to Brigadier General and placed in charge of the United States Colored Troops. In fulfilling his assignment to free slaves and gain recruits, he took three women as hostages and ordered a great deal of property destruction. He freed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of slaves and settled them safely on Roanoke Island. Wild then not only recruited the newly freed blacks but trained them and gave them the opportunity to prove their worth in battle. Nobody, it seems, was happy about serving with them, but the African Brigade performed courageously in several battles. Wild did some inexplicable things. Were his actions typical of the 19th century or did he act outside the norm? Was the criticism he suffered from his fellow Union officers valid--or was it due to personality conflicts? Did he deserve to be arrested, court-martialed, and even wiped from the history books--or was he the victim of discrimination? This work draws its answers from extensive research and includes many rare letters to and from Wild, including one from one of the North Carolinian hostages.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476607044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Edward Wild, the controversial Union general who headed the all-black African Brigade in the Civil War, was one of the most loved and most hated figures of the 19th century. The man was neither understood nor appreciated by military or civilian, black or white, Northerner or Southerner. After enlisting at the outbreak of the war, Wild was promoted to Brigadier General and placed in charge of the United States Colored Troops. In fulfilling his assignment to free slaves and gain recruits, he took three women as hostages and ordered a great deal of property destruction. He freed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of slaves and settled them safely on Roanoke Island. Wild then not only recruited the newly freed blacks but trained them and gave them the opportunity to prove their worth in battle. Nobody, it seems, was happy about serving with them, but the African Brigade performed courageously in several battles. Wild did some inexplicable things. Were his actions typical of the 19th century or did he act outside the norm? Was the criticism he suffered from his fellow Union officers valid--or was it due to personality conflicts? Did he deserve to be arrested, court-martialed, and even wiped from the history books--or was he the victim of discrimination? This work draws its answers from extensive research and includes many rare letters to and from Wild, including one from one of the North Carolinian hostages.
Man in the Middle
Author: Andrew Scott Brake
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761832768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Man in the Middle reopens the history of Henry Benjamin Whipple, the First Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota, using his sermons, his letters, and Dakota and Chippewa letters. The book explores his role as a crusader for the survival and salvation of the Dakota and Chippewa peoples of Minnesota and brings to light an obscure figure in American history that deserves a reintroduction to the story of American religious and Indian history.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761832768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Man in the Middle reopens the history of Henry Benjamin Whipple, the First Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota, using his sermons, his letters, and Dakota and Chippewa letters. The book explores his role as a crusader for the survival and salvation of the Dakota and Chippewa peoples of Minnesota and brings to light an obscure figure in American history that deserves a reintroduction to the story of American religious and Indian history.