Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era

Lovett, BobL, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly

Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Edited by John David Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 451. Acknowledgments, introduction, maps, illustrations, contributors, index. $39.95.)

John David Smith, Graduate Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, was inspired by the latest research in African-American, military, and social history to gather fourteen original essays for Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Smith has published three other books, An Old Creed for the New South (1985), Black Voices from Reconstruction (1996), and …

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Publication information: Article title: Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Contributors: Lovett, BobL - Author. Journal title: The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Volume: 62. Issue: 3 Publication date: Autumn 2003. Page number: 335. © Arkansas Historical Association, Department of History, University of Arkansas Autumn 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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