The Black military experience
| Other Authors: | Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1982.
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| Physical Description: |
xxxv, 852 pages : portrait ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 ;
ser. 2. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1.
- Black enlistment and the collapse of chattel bondage.
- Early recruitment: lowcountry South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; Louisiana; and Kansas ;
- Lowcountry South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida ;
- Louisiana ;
- Kansas
- Recruitment in the free states and free-state recruitment in the occupied south
- Recruitment in tidewater Virginia and North Carolina; the Mississippi Valley; and Tennessee ;
- Tidewater Virginia and North Carolina ;
- Mississippi Valley ;
- Tennessee
- Recruitment in the border states: Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky ;
- Maryland ;
- Missouri ;
- Kentucky
- Confederate recruitment
- Part 2. The structure of Black military life: limits and opportunities.
- Black officers ;
- Line officers ,
- Chaplains and surgeons
- Fighting on two fronts: the struggle for equal pay
- Black soldiers and their officers
- Military discipline, punishment, and justice
- Part 3. Black military life: on duty.
- Duties: "Instead of the musket it is the spad and the wheelbarrow and the axe"
- Combat: "To strike a manly blow for the liberty of your race"
- Prisoners of war
- Part 4. Black military life: off duty.
- Camp life
- Education
- Health
- A brothers' war: Black soldiers and their kinfolk ;
- Soldiers' mothers, wives, and children ;
- Soldiers' wages and the Black family ;
- Soldiers' families in slavery ;
- Soldiers' families within Union lines
- Part 5. Black soldiers in postwar America.
- Black soldiers in the postwar army of occupation
- Home from the war: discharged Black soldiers ;
- Discharge ;
- Farewell to arms ;
- Promises kept and broken ;
- Victims and heroes.