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Title Thunder at the gates : the black Civil War regiments that redeemed America / Douglas R. Egerton.
Author Egerton, Douglas R., author.
Publisher New York : Basic Books, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Description ix, 429 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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 EI-Adult Collection  973.7415 EGE Nearby on shelf  30626003083298 04-28-17  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-409) and index.
Summary Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the gates, Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the formation and exploits of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry -- regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery.
Subject United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
Massachusetts -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
Other title Black Civil War regiments that redeemed America
ISBN 9780465096640
0465096646