Stephen A Swails

Author : Gordon C. Rhea
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176575
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stephen A. Swails written by Gordon C. Rhea and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that he became the first African American commissioned as a combat officer in the United States military. After the war, Swails remained in South Carolina, where he held important positions in the Freedmen’s Bureau, helped draft a progressive state constitution, served in the state senate, and secured legislation benefiting newly liberated Black citizens. Swails remained active in South Carolina politics after Reconstruction until violent Redeemers drove him from the state. After Swails died in 1900, state and local leaders erased him from the historical narrative. Gordon C. Rhea’s biography, one of only a handful for any of the nearly 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War or figured prominently in Reconstruction, restores Swails’s remarkable legacy. Swails’s life story is a saga of an indomitable human being who confronted deep-seated racial prejudice in various institutions but nevertheless reached significant milestones in the fight for racial equality, especially within the military. His is an inspiring story that is especially timely today.

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom written by Ira Berlin and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521132053
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Military Experience written by Ira Berlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "...examines the recruitment of black men into the Union Army and the experiences of black soldiers under arms"--Introd.

Author : Douglas Egerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465096646
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunder at the Gates written by Douglas Egerton and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Negro History written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Negro History written by Carter Godwin Woodson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of the Journal include the broad range of the study of Afro-American life and history.

Author : Dudley Taylor Cornish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sable Arm written by Dudley Taylor Cornish and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the hopes, fears, and accomplishments of Black troops in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1316 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Election Case of John M. Clayton Vs. C.R. Breckinridge, from the Second Congressional District of Arkansas written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Hare
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0999419242
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Stories: Elmira, New York Volume 3 written by James Hare and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Hare and Diane Janowski are freelance history writers for the Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette. Since 2014, they each write monthly articles on the history of the city of Elmira, New York. This book is a selection of their articles.

Author : Luis Fenollosa Emilio
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865 written by Luis Fenollosa Emilio and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: