Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers by Joseph T. Glatthaar

Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers

Joseph T. Glatthaar

400 pages • first pub 1989 (view editions)

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Sixteen months after the start of the American Civil War, the Federal government, having vastly underestimated the length and manpower demands of the war, began to recruit black soldiers. This revolutionary policy gave 180,000 free blacks and form...

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