Freedom for Themselves
Richard M. Reid
The University of North Carolina Press 
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and aftger the war.
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35th, Confederacy, organization, North Carolina black Civil War soldiers, Civil War combat, 37th, black soldier families, ex-Confederate, 14th United States Colored Heavy Artillery, Roanoke Island, postwar South, black soldiers, black enlistment, regiment, Union, black veterans, United States Colored Troops, 36th, Reconstruction, black military experience