Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit Volume 47 Contributor(s): Spurgeon, Ian Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 080616879X ISBN-13: 9780806168791 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | African American - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
Dewey: 973.741 |
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6" W x 9" (1.46 lbs) 456 pages |
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Publisher Description: It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union soldiers facing down rebel irregulars on Enoch Toothman's farm near Butler, Missouri, this was no battle over abstract principles. These were men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry, and they were fighting for their own freedom and that of their families. They belonged to the first black regiment raised in a northern state, and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War. Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history. |