Blacks In Gray Uniforms

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Blacks in Gray Uniforms by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

This ground-breaking book takes an insightful and close "New Look" at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War--the long-overlooked battlefield contributions of the most forgotten fighting men of the Civil War, Black Confederates. With the release of the popular 1989 film Glory, the American public first learned about the heroism of the black troops of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and their courageous assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in July 1863. But what the American public failed to learn in viewing this popular film was the equally compelling saga of Black Confederates, including at least one defender, a free black soldier of the 1st South Carolina Artillery who defended Fort Wagner in July 1863. Significantly, large numbers of Black Confederates, slave and free, had already been fighting on battlefields across the South for more than two years before the famous assault of the 54th Massachusetts on Fort Wagner, including the war's first major battle at Bull Run. Although the vast of majority blacks served the Confederacy in menial and support roles, Black Confederates, free and slave, fought from 1861 to 1865 in regiments (infantry, cavalry, and artillery) that represented every Southern state.

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1634990439

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Blacks in Gray Uniforms by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

"America through time. Adding color to American history."

Author : Kevin M. Levin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469653273

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Searching for Black Confederates by Kevin M. Levin Pdf

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.

Author : H. C. Blackerby
Publisher : Portals Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89059424770

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Blacks in Blue and Gray by H. C. Blackerby Pdf

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811770620

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Brothers in Liberty by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

After failing to defeat the Continental Army in New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania during the first half of the Revolutionary War, British generals decided to turn south, where they believed they could win the war in a region more heavily populated by Loyalists. In late 1778, a British expeditionary force sailed south from New York City and captured Savannah, which became a British base of operations and strategic hinge. To thwart the British, an international force gathered around Savannah, including Americans, Poles, Germans, Irish, and—significantly—a volunteer force of free Blacks from present-day Haiti: the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue. The Chasseurs constituted the largest Black military unit in the American Revolution. The soldiers were free men, the sons of French fathers, mostly sugar plantation owners, and slave mothers in France’s most prosperous overseas colony. In the fall of 1779, this force joined the attack on the British at Savannah in a series of frontal results. The French and Americans were repulsed at great cost in lives, but the free Black Haitians stood their ground—and, in a moment of high courage that has never received its due, stymied a British counterattack that salvaged the day for the Americans and French. A rock at Savannah on behalf of the American Revolution, many of the Haitian survivors of the battle went on to serve the cause of liberty in the Haitian Revolution and help found the first Black republic in world history. This is their story.

Author : Marvin T. Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030773632

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A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism by Marvin T. Brown Pdf

This open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of economic, social, and racial justice. Brown shows how our current social climate maintains systemic injustices, and he uncovers resources for change through a civic ethics of repair and reciprocity. A must-read for researchers and educators in the area of environmental ethics and those teaching courses in the fields of public policy and environmental sustainability. With the support of more than 30 libraries, the LYRASIS United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund has enabled this publication related to SDG13 (Climate Action) to be available fully open access.

Author : Keith P. Griffler
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0813122988

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Front Line of Freedom by Keith P. Griffler Pdf

Uses letters, reminiscences, and oral histories to examine the interracial enterprise known as the Underground Railroad and to explore the risks taken by daring and courageous African Americans and whites in the Ohio River Valley.

Author : William E. Alt,Betty L. Alt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065132

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Black Soldiers, White Wars by William E. Alt,Betty L. Alt Pdf

This overview explores the use of black people, either through coercion or enticement, in the armed forces of predominantly white societies in times of crisis when the supply of white soldiers was exhausted or when whites refused to fill the ranks of a wartime army. A chronological review, the study begins with references to Biblical armies and ends with the technological environment of the modern world, looking at how blacks were employed, exploited or rewarded for their service over the centuries. While the balance sheet is mixed, military institutions have proven to be leaders in integration and equality for blacks both in the United States and in Europe. Inequality still exists in the modern American military; however, the authors contend, it is more likely to be based upon educational disparities than on the color of a soldier's skin. African American soldiers played a significant role in the creation and expansion of the United States. The authors write about conquistadors who utilized blacks as soldier slaves. They recount the stories of the black men who fought during the Revolutionary War. They detail the experience of the Buffalo Soldiers in securing and protecting the western wilderness and follow the black soldier fighting alongside Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. From the decks of the battleship ^IMaine^R to the Philippine Islands, from the hills of Vietnam and the deserts of the Middle East, and, finally, to the all-volunteer army, this book reveals the impact that black soldiers have made on American history.

Author : James M. Paradis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0810850303

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African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign by James M. Paradis Pdf

The role that African Americans played in the Gettysburg Campaign has now been largely forgotten. This work seeks to rectify this oversight by bringing to light the many ways that Black Americans took part in the crucial battle at Gettysburg, how they were able to influence the military outcome, and the impact the Civil War had on their lives. Author, James M. Paradis, a former licensed battlefield guide at Gettysburg National Military Park, examines the active prewar role played by Gettysburg citizens, both black and white, in dramatic rescues of the Underground Railroad. Readers are introduced to an impressive ensemble of characters from the black community in Gettysburg including farmers, blacksmiths, teachers, veterinarians, preachers, servants, and laborers. He also dispels the myth that no black men fought or were killed defending Gettysburg from the Confederate invasion. By filling in the missing pieces, this book will help African Americans take back their own history in this dramatic struggle for freedom. African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign will appeal to scholars and general readers alike. Civil War buffs and potential Gettysburg visitors will find the tour for today and points of interest sections valuable tools for enhancing their experience of this sacred ground. Maps, photographs, and illustrations appear throughout.

Author : Andrew H. Myers
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813925754

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Black, White, & Olive Drab by Andrew H. Myers Pdf

One of the first Army bases to implement on a large scale President Truman's call for racial integration of the armed forces, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, quickly took its place in the Defense Department's official history of the process. What reporters, and later on, historians, overlooked was the interaction between the integration of Fort Jackson and developments, in particular, the civil rights movement, in the wider communities in which the base is situated.In Black, White, and Olive Drab, Andrew H. Myers redresses this oversight; taking a case-study approach, Myers meticulously weaves together a wide range of official records, newspaper accounts, and personal interviews, revealing the impact of Fort Jackson's integration on the desegregation of civilian buses, schools, housing, and public facilities in the surrounding area. Examining the ways in which commanders and staff at the installation navigated challenges over racial issues in their dealings with municipal authorities, state politicians, federal legislators, and the upper echelons of the military bureaucracy, Myers also addresses how post leaders dealt with the potential for participation in civil rights demonstrations by soldiers under their command. Original and provocative, Black, White, and Olive Drab will engage historians and sociologists who study military-social relations, the civil rights movement, African American history, and the South, as well as those who are interested in or familiar with basic training or the American armed forces.

Author : Alexander DeConde
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1555535925

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Gun Violence in America by Alexander DeConde Pdf

An in-depth analysis of the folklore surrounding gun use and the state of the debate in today's political climate.

Author : Bobby Delgado
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781604770223

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Gangs, Prisons, Parole $ the Politics Behind Them by Bobby Delgado Pdf

Delgado's expos sheds light on Texas gangs, the Texas prison system, the corrupt authority figures charged with running the Texas prison system, and the government figures determined to protect it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435059199182

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Walt Whitman Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ron Field
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472807526

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Appomattox 1865 by Ron Field Pdf

From an internationally renowned expert on US history, this highly illustrated title details the curtain-closing campaign of the American Civil War in the East. Ulysses S Grant's Army of the Potomac and Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia faced up to one another one last time, resulting in Lee conducting a desperate series of withdrawals and retreats down the line of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, hoping to join forces with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee. This book, with informative full-colour illustrations and maps, tells the full story of the skirmishes and pursuits that led directly to Lee's surrender, as his frantic efforts to extricate his forces from ever more perilous positions became increasingly untenable.

Author : Charles A. Misulia
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817359768

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Columbus, Georgia, 1865 by Charles A. Misulia Pdf

A thoroughly researched account of a memorable Civil War battle Columbus, Georgia, 1865 is a comprehensive study of the Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, con?ict, which occurred in the dark of night and extended over a mile and half through a series of forts and earthworks and was ?nally decided in an encounter on a bridge a thousand feet in length. This volume offers the ?rst complete account of this battle, examining and recounting in depth not only the composition and actions of the contending forces, which numbered some three thousand men on each side, but meticulously detailing the effect of the engagement on the city of Columbus and its environs. Misulia’s study ?lls in an omission in the grand account of our cataclysmic national struggle and adds a signi?cant chapter to the history of an important regional city. In addition, Misulia takes on the long-vexing question of which encounter should be recognized as the last battle of the Civil War and argues persuasively that Columbus, Georgia, quali?es for this distinction on a number of counts.