Full name: The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

Author: James M. McPherson Year: 1965 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781400033904 140003390X

In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, and common people--during the Civil War. Drawing on contemporary journalism, speeches, books, and letters, he presents an eclectic chronicle of their fears and hopes as well as their essential contributions to their own freedom. Through the words of these extraordinary participants, both Northern and Southern, McPherson captures African-American responses to emancipation, the shifting attitudes toward Lincoln and the life of black soldiers in the Union army. Above all, we are allowed to witness the dreams of a disenfranchised people eager to embrace the rights and the equality offered to them, finally, as citizens. Similar books: Drawn with the Sword by James M. McPherson The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp The Boys' War by Jim Murphy The Long Surrender by Burke Davis Pursuit to Appomattox by Jerry Korn The South Vs. The South by William W. Freehling Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton Hard Tack and Coffee by John D. Billings Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Three Months in the Southern States by Arthur J. L. Fremantle The Golden Book of the Civil War by Charles Flato Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton The Civil War by Robert Paul Jordan To Appomattox by Burke Davis The Long Road to Gettysburg by Jim Murphy Landscape Turned Red by Stephen W. Sears For Cause and Comrades by James M. McPherson Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll