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

New York: The Free Press, 1989. Book Club Edition. 370, illus., notes, appendices, bibliography, index. The uneasy alliance between black soldiers and white officers who, divided by racial tension and ideology, were united by the trials and bonds of the war they fought side by side. Appendices include Statistics Samples, Congressional Medal of Honor Winners in the USCT, Black Officers in the Union Army. Glatthaar was professor of history at the University of Houston. Condition: very good.

Keywords: Racism, Freedman, Colored Troops, Thomas Higginson, 54th Infantry, Milliken's Bend, Slavery, Prejudice, Civil War

ISBN: 0029118158

[Book #51408]

Price: $30.00

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