Thunder at the gates : the black Civil War regiments that redeemed America /
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 b...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2016]
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