How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
by
Bob Luke, John David Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Union...