Suggested Reading List
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| Adams, Virginia M., ed. ON THE ALTAR OF FREEDOM:
A Black Soldier’s Civil War Letters From The Front - Cpl. James Henry Gooding.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991
(A Member of the 54th Massachusetts) Berlin, Ira, ed. FREEDOM: Documentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867 – Series II – The Black Military Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982 Blackett, R.J.M., ed. THOMAS MORRIS CHESTER: Black Civil War Correspondent – His Dispatches from the Virginia Front. New York: Da Capo Press – First Published by Louisiana State University Press, 1989 Blight, David W. FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ CIVIL WAR: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989 Boatner, Mark M., III. THE CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY. New York: Vintage Books, 1959 Brown, William Wells. THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REBELLION: His Heroism and His Fidelity. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. [New York: Kraus Reprint Company, 1969] Burchard, Peter. ONE GALLANT RUSH: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965 (The Book which the movie "Glory" was based on.) Burchard, Peter. "WELL STAND BY THE UNION": Robert Gould Shaw and the Black 54thMassachusetts Regiment. Fact on File, 1993 Callum, Agnes Kane. COLORED VOLUNTEERS OF MARYLAND: Civil War – 7th Regiment United States Colored Troops, 1863-1866. Baltimore: Mullac Publishers, 1990 Clark, Peter H. THE BLACK BRIGADE OF CINCINNATI. New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969 Cornish, Dudley Taylor. THE SABLE ARM: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Lawrence: the University Press of Kansas, 1987 Cowden, Robert. A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT OF UNITED STATES COLORED INFANTRY. Salem, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., Reprinted 1971. (First Published 1883) Cox, Clinton. UNDYING GLORY: The Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1991 Current, Richard Nelson. LINCOLN’S LOYALISTS: Union Soldiers From the Confederacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992 Davis, Burke. TO APPOMATTOX: Nine April Days, 1865. New York: Eastern Acorn Press, 1959 Duncan, Russell. BLUE-EYED CHILD OF FORTUNE: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992 Dyer, Frederick H. A COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 3 Volumes. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959 Emilio, Luis F. A BRAVE BLACK REGIMENT. New York: Bantam Books, 1992 (The Official Regimental History of the 54th Massachusetts) Foner, Jack. BLACKS AND THE MILITARY IN AMERICA. New York: Praeger, 1974 Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: A History of Negro Americans. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947 (Sixth Edition 1988) Gladstone, William A. MEN OF COLOR. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1993 Gladstone, William A. UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS 1863-1867. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1990 Glatthaar, Joseph T. FORGED IN BATTLE: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York: Meridian, 1991 Hansen, Joyce. BETWEEN TWO FIRES: Black Soldiers in the Civil War. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1993 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT. Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publications, 1984 Hollandsworth, James G. Jr. THE LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995 Katz, William Loren. EYEWITNESS: The Negro in American History. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1967 Lanning, Lt. Col. Michael Lee (Ret.). THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOLDIER: From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell. Secausus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1997. (Chapter 3—The American Civil War) Long, Richard A., ed. BLACK WRITERS AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: Black Involvement and Participation in the War Between the States. Secaucus, NJ: The Blue and Grey Press, 1988 Main, Edwin M. THE STORY OF THE MARCHES, BATTLES, AND INCIDENTS OF THE THIRD UNITED STATESCOLORED CAVALRY. Louisville: Globe Printing Company, 1908. Reprinted, New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970 Massachusetts Adjutant General’s Office. MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES IN THE CIVIL WAR. Norwood: The Norwood Press, 1932 McPherson, James M. MARCHING TOWARD FREEDOM: Blacks in the Civil War 1861-1865. New York: Facts on File, 1965 McPherson, James M. THE NEGRO’S CIVIL WAR: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. New York: Ballatine Books, 1982 Mettger, Zak. TILL VICTORY IS WON: Black Soldiers in the Civil War. United Kingdom: Puffin Books, 1997 Miller, Edward A. Jr. THE BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS OF ILLINOIS: The Story of the Twenty-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 1998 Mohr, Clarence L. ON THE THRESHOLD OF FREEDOM: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986 Morgan, T.J. D.D., LL.D. NEGROES IN THE CIVIL WAR (Extracted from The Negro in America and The Ideal American Republic). Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1898 Mullen, Robert W. BLACKS IN AMERICA’S WARS. New York: Anchor Foundation, 1973 Munden, Kenneth W. and Henry Putney Beers. THE UNION: A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986 Nalty, Bernard, C. STRENGTH FOR THE FIGHT: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: The Free Press, 1986 Quarles, Benjamin. THE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR. New York: Da Capo Press, 1953 Redkey, Edwin S. A GRAND ARMY OF BLACK MEN: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865, Vol. 63. Cambridge University Press, 1993 Regimental Association. RECORD OF THE SERVICE OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1868. (Reprinted 1991 by Ayer Company, Publishers, Inc. Salem, NH.) Romero, Patricia, and Willie Lee Rose, Editors. SUSIE KING TAYLOR: Reminiscences of My Life – A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs. New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1988 Rutberg, Becky. MARY LINCOLN’S DRESSMAKER: Elizabeth Keckley’s Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante. Walker and Company, 1995 Trudeau, Noah Andre, ed. VOICES OF THE 55TH: Letters from the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers 1861-1865. Dayton, OH: Morningside House, Inc., 1996 United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 128 Volumes. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901 Weaver, C. P. THANK GOD MY REGIMENT AN AFRICAN ONE: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1998 (The first published personal narrative by a regimental commander of free Black troops) Westwood, Howard C. BLACK TROOPS, WHITE COMMANDERS AND FREEDMEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992 Wilson, Joseph T. THE BLACK PHALANX: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-1865. Hartford, CT.: American Publishing Company, 1890. (Copyright 1968 by Arno Press, Inc. and reprinted by Ayer Company Publishers, 1992) |