Author: Charles Kelly BarrowPublisher: Ironclad Publishing
ISBN: 9780966245417
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Black Southerners in Confederate Armies
Author: Charles Kelly BarrowPublisher: Ironclad Publishing
ISBN: 9780966245417
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Black Southerners in Confederate Armies
Author: Charles Kelly BarrowPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589804555
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Little has been written about the military role of African Americans in military campaigns of the United States despite the fact that men and women of color were involved in all national conflicts beginning with the Revolutionary War. Indeed, the thought of black men and women serving the Confederacy during the Civil War is difficult for some to believe because it appears to be a paradox. Yet the surviving narratives, writings of Civil War veterans and their family members, county histories, newspaper articles, personal correspondence, and recorded tributes to black Confederates, offer heartfelt sentiments and historical information that cannot be ignored--and demonstrate that they did serve the Confederacy as soldiers, bodyguards, sailors, construction workers, cooks, and teamsters. Since his 1995 publication of Forgotten Confederates: An Anthology about Black Southerners, author Charles Kelly Barrow has continued to collect source material for this second volume. Subscribers of Confederate Veteran magazine responded to Barrow's classified ads, and excerpts from other publications such as the Journal of Negro History (Vol. IV, July 1919) and Smithsonian Magazine (March 1979) are included here. One excerpt includes the surprising testimony by black Confederate Eddie Brown Page III for the U.S. District Court that helped determine if the Confederate battle emblem should be removed from the Georgia state flag. After Sergeant Page's testimony, the case was later dismissed. Full of surprising anecdotes, eloquent statements, tragic testaments, and admirable accounts of those blacks who fought for and with the South, this collection deserves a place on the shelf of anyone interested in the Civil War's lesser known aspects.
Black Confederates
Author: Charles Kelly BarrowPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781565549371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains correspondence, military records, and reminiscences from brave men who served what they considered their country.
Black Southerners in Confederate Armies
Author: Joe Henry SegarsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Searching for Black Confederates
Author: Kevin M. LevinPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Forgotten Confederates
Author: Charles Kelly BarrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Author: Ervin L. JordanPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813915456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A study of the role of Afro-Virginians in the Civil War.
Lincoln's Loyalists
Author: Richard Nelson CurrentPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555531249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
With this path-breaking book, Richard Nelson Current closes a major gap in our understanding of the important role of white southerners who fought for the Union during the Civil War. The ranks of the Union forces swelled by more than 100,000 of these men known to their friends as "loyalists" and to their enemies as "tories". They substantially strengthened the Union, weakened the Confederacy, and affected the outcome of the Civil War. Despite the assertions of southern governors that Lincoln would get no troops from the South to preserve the Union, every Confederate state except South Carolina provided at least a battalion of white troops for the Union Army. The role of black soldiers (including those from the South) continues to receive deserved attention. Curiously, little heed has been paid to the white southern supporters of the Union cause, and nothing has been published about the group as a whole. Relying almost entirely on primary sources, Current here opens the long-overdue investigation of these many Americans who, at great risk to themselves and their families, made a significant contribution to the Union's war effort. Current meticulously explores the history of the loyalists in each Confederate state during the war. Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia provided over 70 percent of the loyalist troops, but 10,000 from Arkansas, 7,000 from Louisiana, and thousands from North Carolina, Texas, and Alabama volunteered as well. The author weaves the separate state stories into an intriguing and detailed tapestry. The loyalists served in a variety of capacities--some performing mundane tasks, some fighting with valor. Whatever his individual role, each southerner joining the Unionconstituted a double loss to the Confederacy: a subtraction from its own ranks and an addition to the Union's. Undoubtedly, this played an important role in the Confederate defeat.
Confederate Emancipation
Author: Bruce LevinePublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195147626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Levine sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war South.
Black Confederates
Author: Charles Kelly BarrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the lost chapters of Civil War history has been the passive and even active support that many Southern blacks, free and slave, gave to the Confederacy. Black Confederates illuminates the over-looked facet of this seemingly contradictory behavior by a group of African-Americans who appear to have thought of themselves as Southerners first and blacks second.