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The University Press of Kentucky My Old Confederate Home A Respectable Place for
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The University Press of Kentucky A Tour of Reconstruction Travel Letters of 1875
Book SynopsisAnna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. In March 1875, Dickinson departed from Washington, D.C., for an extended tour of the South, curious to see how far the region had progressed in the decade after Appomattox.In A Tour of Reconstruction, editor J.
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The University Press of Kentucky Slaves Slaveholders and a Kentucky Communitys
Book SynopsisDigging deep into Holt's past, Leonard explores the lives of Holt's extended family members and also traces the experiences and efforts of Sandy Holt and other slaves-turned-soldiers from Breckinridge County and its periphery.
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The University Press of Kentucky Lincoln Seward and US Foreign Relations in the
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The University Press of Kentucky Confederate Citadel
Book SynopsisRichmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War offers a detailed portrait of life's daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Long Civil War
Book SynopsisFeaturing many leading figures in the field, The Long Civil War meaningfully expands the focus of what previous generations of historians judged to be mid-nineteenth-century history.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Acknowledgments Contributors
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The University Press of Kentucky Bluejackets and Contrabands
Book SynopsisThe only in-depth study of the relationship between the Union Navy and African Americans during the Civil War.Table of ContentsIntroduction Union Navy Policy toward Contrabands Going to Freedom Contraband Camps Informants Contributing to Victory Contraband Pilots Contraband Sailors Joint Army-Navy Operations The Final Months
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University of Virginia Press Civil War Petersburg Confederate City in the
Book SynopsisFew wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than Petersburg. On the eve of the Civil War, the city elected a conservative, pro-Union approach to the sectional crisis. This book provides a study of this city, looking at both Petersburg's civilian experience and the city's place in Confederate military strategy and administration.
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The University of Alabama Press Blockaders Refugees and Contrabands Civil War on
Book SynopsisTrade Review[Buker] argues that the presence of Union sailors and their extensive contacts ashore did serious damage to home-front morale and retarded Florida's value as a component of the rebel war machine. Since the state's long coastlines made it a ready target for a naval cordon, its commercial life suffered beginning in 1861 and deteriorated even further as the war progressed despite the efforts of blockade runners. Florida Unionists, antiwar natives, and runaway slaves flocked to these Federal warships to seek protection and quickly became a source of manpower for their crews as well as for land forces. - Journal of Southern History; ""The proliferation of publications concerning the American Civil War occasionally produces one that really contributes to our understanding of that conflict. George E. Buker's Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands is such a book."" - Journal of American History
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The University of Alabama Press Storm of Words Science Religion and Evolution in
Book SynopsisStorm of Words is a study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions, chief among them developments in natural history and evolution. Southern Presbyterian theologians enjoyed a prominent position in antebellum southern culture. Respected for both their erudition and elite constituency, these theologians identified the southern society as representing a divine, Biblically ordained order. Beginning in the 1840s, however, this facile identification became more difficult to maintain, colliding first with antislavery polemics, then with Confederate defeat and reconstruction, and later with women's rights, philosophical empiricism, literary criticisms of the Bible, and that most salient symbol of modernity, natural science. As Monte Harrell Hampton shows in Storm of Words, modern science seemed most explicitly to express the rationalistic spirit of the age and threaten the Protestant conviction that s
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The University of Alabama Press Thomas Goode Jones Race Politics and Justice in
Book SynopsisThis first comprehensive biography of Thomas Goode Jones records the life of a man whose political career reflects the fascinating and unsettled history of Alabama and the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. In tracing Jones's career, Brent J. Aucoin offers vivid accounts of the great events and trends of this pivotal period.Trade ReviewBrent Aucoin has performed a real service by rescuing Governor (and Judge) Jones from obscurity and explaining his importance not only to Alabama history but to American civil rights history. The book—particularly its vivid account of Jones’ legal fight against peonage—portrays Jones as a man who, like his fictional counterpart Atticus Finch, lived a complex and sometimes contradictory life as he tried to balance justice against the racial mores of the Jim Crow-era South.” —Joseph A. Ranney, author of In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law
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The University of Alabama Press The Perfect Scout
Book SynopsisA rare and dramatic first-person account by a Union scout who served General William Tecumseh Sherman on his march to the sea. More than a chronicle of day-to-day battles and marches, The Perfect Scout is more episodic and includes such additional elements as the story of how he met his wife and close encounters with the enemy.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to Civil War scholarship. It provides the perspective of a scout, and there are few published narratives by men who held this important role."" - Wendy Venet, author of A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta""The Perfect Scout is a good read that will appeal to a general audience as well as scholars. George Quimby had a gift for storytelling and a great sense of humor."" - Lorien Foote, author of The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army
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The University of Alabama Press Pulpits of the Lost Cause
Book SynopsisCompares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period.
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University of Missouri Press A Fire Bell in the Past
Book SynopsisDrawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes answer the Missouri ‘Question’, in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms.Table of Contents CONTRIBUTORS xi FOREWORD A Reckoning with Slavery xv D. A. Dunkley INTRODUCTION The 1821 Project 3 Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond CHRONOLOGY The Era of the Second Missouri Compromise 31 PART I: “THE MISSOURI QUESTION" IN NATIONAL POLITICS 1. “We have gained all that was possible, if not all that was desired”: Politics and the Passage of the Missouri Compromise 37 Michael J. McManus 2. The Missouri Crisis and the Uncontested Reelection of James Monroe 71 Christopher Childers 3. Diplomat, Republican, Lady: Louisa Catherine Adams and the Missouri Crisis 99 Miriam Liebman PART II. ANSWERING THE QUESTION IN MISSOURI AND ACROSS AMERICA 4. The Second Missouri Compromise, State Citizenship, and African Americans’ Rights in the Antebellum United States 129 Kate Masur 5. “Clothing and food are nothing compared with liberty”: Undoing the Myth of Mild Missouri Slavery 163 Diane Mutti Burke 6. The Other Fire Bell: African American Politics and the Missouri Compromise before the Civil War 197 Richard Newman 7. A Geography of Free Soil: The Legacy of the 1820 Compromise, Political Conflict, and the Decline of Slavery in Missouri 229 Zachary Dowdle PART III. LEGACIES OF THE MISSOURI CRISIS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE 8. Doughface: The Origins and Legacy of an Antebellum Political Insult 259 Nicholas P. Wood 9. “Contrary to the law of nature”: The Reconstruction and Memory of Rufus King’s Missouri Crisis Speeches 275 David J. Gary 10. “General declarations are insufficient”: The Pressure of Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s 301 Matthew Mason PART IV. REFRAMING THE QUESTION CONTINENTALLY 11. The Local Politics of “Indian Affairs”: Diplomacy, Ethnic Cleansing, and Federal Power in the Age of Missouri Statehood 325 Edward P. Green 12. The Multinational History of Missouri Statehood and the Reimagining of North American Polities 357 Peter Kastor ACKNOWLEDGMENT 385 INDEX 389
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Michigan State University Press The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War
Book SynopsisThis fascinating narrative tells the story of a remarkable regiment at the center of Civil War history. The real-life adventure emerges from accounts of scores of soldiers who served in the 4th Michigan Infantry, gleaned from their diaries, letters, and memoirs; the reports of their officers and commanders; the stories by journalists who covered them; and the recollections of the Confederates who fought against them.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Freedom Train North
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press This Wicked Rebellion Wisconsin Civil War
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Kent State University Press Camp Fires of Freedom
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WW Norton & Co Confederate Soldier of the American Civil War
Book SynopsisThis book provides a glimpse at the lives, weapons, and equipment of these soldiers through a collection of artifacts and exacting reproductions.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Americas Civil War
Book SynopsisSuch is the continuing volume of work on the Civil War that we are regularly in need of an authoritative and accessible brief synthesis to keep us up to date with this endlessly fascinating subject. Brooks Simpson meets that need for the 1990s in America''s Civil War, a wonderful feat of compression in which he addresses all the great issues of the war in 200 pages of clear and readable prose. Rightly, he puts the military history of the conflict at the center of the picture, but he excels in relating the drama of the war itself to the politics of both Union and Confederacy, to the stresses and strains-and opportunities-of the home front, and to the great issues of emancipation and reconstruction. This book is a fine achievement, and it will be invaluable not only to students but to many other readers-and even Civil War specialists will benefit from its fresh insights.Peter J. Parish, Cambridge UniversityTrade Review"Sensible, well-written, and thoroughly grounded in the most recent scholarship, America's Civil War is the best short synthesis of the subject available." —Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University "This book is a fine achievement, and it will be invaluable not only to students but to many other readers—and even Civil War specialists will benefit from its fresh insights." —Peter J. Parish "Simpson has written a lively and interpretive history of the US Civil War. Based on a mastery of the secondary literature, Simpson's narrative weaves the political, military, and social history of this significant period." (CHOICE, September 1996) "This work finally condenses the story of the War to a manageable size for the beginner and student alike. ...Written in a clear, concise manner, this book belongs on the book shelves of any collector of writings on the Civil War." (The Cincinnati Civil War Round Table, November 1996) "Students looking for a condensed, clear, and evenhanded summary of a particular campaign would do well to consult this volume. ...America's Civil War will be a useful supplemental reading in survey courses and a solid short text for courses on the war itself. Occupying an important niche between the single-chapter accounts of the American history textbooks and much longer single-volume treatments...Simpson's book admirably fulfills the goals of the American History Series." (Civil War History, June 1997)Table of ContentsForeword VII Preface and Acknowledgments XII Introduction: On Understanding the Civil War 1 Chapter One: Secession and the First Shot 7 Secession 9 The First Shot 21 Chapter Two: War Begins 24 Mobilizing For Conflict 25 War Aims 31 The First Battles 37 The European Response 45 Chapter Three: The Limited War 49 Forts Henry and Donelson 50 Shiloh 53 Rebels Resurgents in Virginia 57 Confederate Escalation 66 Chapter Four: War Becomes Revolution 70 Toward Emancipation 71 Confederate Counteroffensives: Lee Moves North 80 Confederate Counteroffensives: Perryville, Iuka, and Corinth 87 Emancipation and Elections 89 Union Battlefield Standoffs and Rebuffs 94 Chapter Five: Gambles Won and Lost 100 Chancellorsville 101 Vicksburg and Gettysburg 105 Chickamauga and Chattanooga 114 The Impact of Emancipation 120 Chapter Six: The Home Front 130 The Folks Back Home 131 The Northern Economy and War Effort 137 The Southern Economy and War Effort 141 Politics and Society: The North 145 Politics and Society: The South 152 Wartime Reconstruction: Early Steps 157 Chapter Seven: The Campaigns of 1864 162 Grant’s Grand Design 163 The Wilderness Campaigns 166 The Atlanta Campaign 175 Lincoln’s Bid for Reelection 177 Victory on the Battlefield and at the Ballot Box 183 Chapter Eight: Victory and Defeat 188 Sherman’s March to the Sea 189 Fort Fisher and the March through the Carolinas 194 Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Peace Proposals 197 From Richmond to Appomattox 201 Foundations for Peace 206 Conclusion: Why the Union Won 213 Bibliographical Essay 221 Index 233 Maps: Major Campaigns of the Civil War 35 Campaigns in the West, February to April 1862 52 The Peninsula Campaign 1862 64 Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, August to December 1862 82 War in the East, 1863 103 The Vicksburg Campaign, April to July 1863 108 Grant vs. Lee 168 Campaigns in the West, 1864-65 190
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AMG Publishers Stories of Faith and Courage from the Civil War Volume 1 Battlefields and Blessings
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Eliot Werner Publications Inc The Confederate Quartermaster in the
Book SynopsisThis book recounts the history of the Denbigh, one of the Civil War's most successful blockade runners. A new introduction by J. Barto Arnold III reviews recent archival and archaeological research and highlights the blockade runner's place in the Confederacy's complex and ultimately insoluble problem of obtaining manufactured items from abroad.Trade Review '[A]n important contribution to the historian’s knowledge of a significant aspect of the military operations of the Civil War. (George L. Anderson, Civil War History)' '[O]ffers much light in a hitherto little regarded area of Confederate studies. Professor Nichols deserves great credit for this fine contribution to Civil War knowledge.' (Allan C. Ashcraft, Southern Historical Quarterly) 'This [volume] . . . should help future scholars to a better understanding of the period 1861–65 than has ever been possible before'. (Robert A. Brent, Journal of Mississippi History) '[A] pioneering work in the field of Trans-Mississippi logistics.' (William T. Windham, Journal of Southern History) Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Percheron Press Edition, J. Barto Arnold III 1. The Quartermaster: His Place and Purpose 2. Clothing and Equipage 3. The Tax-in-Kind in the Trans-Mississippi 4. The Cotton Bureau 5. Transportation: Supply and Maintenance 6. Payrolls, Claims, and Money Troubles Bibliography Index
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St Martin's Press Be Free or Die
Book SynopsisFacing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero.
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St Martin's Press Flee North
Book SynopsisA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the YearA riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history.Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north.They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region's leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would tear one million enslaved people from their families and sell them to the brutal cotton and sugar plantation
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Houghton Mifflin Lincolns Lieutenants
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Random House USA Inc 1861
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Random House USA Inc American Ulysses
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidentsWinner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography • Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book Prize In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first. Based on seven years of research with primary documents—some of them never examined by previous Grant scholars—this is destined to become the Grant biography of our time. White, a biographer exceptionally skilled at
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Sourcebooks History Buffs Guide to the Civil War The Best the Worst the Largest and the Most Lethal Top Ten Rankings of the Civil War 0 History Buffs Guides
Book SynopsisThomas R. Flagel teaches American History at Columbia State Community College in Columbia,Tennessee. He holds degrees from Loras College, Kansas State University,Creighton University, and has studied at the University of Vienna. He currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee.
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National Geographic Society National Geographic The Civil War
Book SynopsisA complete list of all of the major campaigns as well as short biographies of key leaders and influential figures sheds light on the strategic manoeuvres of the war.Trade Review“This guide will prove indispensable on any expedition to explore Civil War history in America.”-hive.co.uk
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Pelican Publishing Co. Bushwhacker Belles
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Arcadia Publishing Inc. Virginia in the Civil War Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing On This Day in Florida Civil War History
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Arcadia Publishing Slavery the Underground Railroad in South
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Arcadia Publishing Michigans Civil War CitizenGeneral Alpheus S
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Arcadia Publishing WilsonS Raid
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History Press Wisconsin at Antietam The Badger States Sacrifice
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History Press War for Missouri 18611862
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Arcadia Publishing Mississippi Bishop William Henry Elder and the
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History Press Lost Towns of Central Alabama
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History Press Kalamazoo County and the Civil War
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History Press Fort Clinch Fernandina and the Civil War
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History Press Ohio at Antietam
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History Press The Civil War Battles of Macon
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History Press Haunted Shenandoah Valley
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Capstone Press The Wound Is Mortal The Story of the
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Capstone Press Wound Is Mortal Story of the Assassination of
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University of Arkansas Press Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of
Book SynopsisPortraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War is the tenth volume in this acclaimed series showing the human side of the country’s great national conflict. Over 230 photographs of soldiers and civilians from Alabama, many never seen before, are accompanied by their personal stories and woven into the larger narrative of the war both on the battlefield and the home front. Alabama is unusual among the Rebel states in that, while its people saw little fighting inside its boundaries, nearly one hundred thousand Alabamians served with Confederate units throughout the South. This volume chronicles their experiences in almost every battle east of the Mississippi River—especially at Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg under the legendary Robert E. Lee; at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga as part of the ill-fated Army of Tennessee; and at the famous siege of Vicksburg. Ultimately Union soldiers did invade the state, and Alabamians defended their homeland against enemy cavalry raiders at Selma and against Federal warships in the fight for Mobile Bay. The volume also includes accounts of some of Alabama’s leading politicians as well as several of its more ordinary citizens. This new volume contains the same quality of photography and storytelling that has attracted Civil War enthusiasts since the first volume was published in 1987, making it another welcome addition to the series Civil War History called “a sensibly priced, beautifully produced photographic history.”
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University of Massachusetts Press Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The
Book SynopsisThis title presents the previously unpublished record of a white doctor's service with African American troops during the Civil War. In early 1863, in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Massachusetts began recruiting black soldiers to serve in the Civil War. Although the first regiment formed, the 54th Massachusetts, would become the best-known black regiment in the war, the second regiment raised, the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, performed equally valuable service in the Union Army. Burt Green Wilder, a Boston-born, Harvard-educated doctor-in-training, was among the first white officers commissioned to staff the 55th Massachusetts. Like other officers serving in the state's African American units, Wilder was selected for his military experience, his 'firm Anti-Slavery principles', and his faith in the value of black troops. From the time he joined the 55th in May 1863 until the regiment was discharged in September 1865, Wilder recorded his experiences and observations. He described the day-to-day activities of a Civil War surgeon, the indignities suffered by black enlisted men at the hands of a War Department that denied them the same treatment offered to white troops, and the role of the regiment in the campaign around Charleston and in Florida. Service in the southern states also allowed Wilder to indulge a passion for natural science and comparative anatomy, including the collection of unusual species, one of which - the spider known as Nephila wilderi - still bears his name. After the war he completed his medical studies at Harvard and joined the faculty of Cornell University, where he became a distinguished professor of zoology as well as an outspoken advocate of racial equality. In his introduction to the volume, Richard M. Reid analyzes Burt Wilder's diary and places it within the context of the war, the experience of African American troops, and Wilder's life and career.Trade Review"Wilder's diary is a rich text for historians of the Civil War, black troops, medicine, the South, race, and the history of American natural science. It includes detailed information on Civil War medicine, on the day-to-day experiences of a white officer in a black regiment, on the black troops themselves, and the innumerable issues (fatigue labor versus combat, discrimination in terms of equipment, pay, status, medical care) that defined life for the men of the U.S. Colored Troops. Wilder's is an important voice that needs to be heard by a broad range of scholars and students of Civil War and late nineteenth-century America." - John David Smith, editor of Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era"
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