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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 blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the gates, Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the formation and exploits of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry -- regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery.
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United States, African American Participation, United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865), Campaigns, United States. Army. Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, 5th (1864-1865), African American soldiers, United States. Army, United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 55th (1863-1865), African American troops, History, United states, army, african american troops, African american soldiers, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, participation, african americanPlaces
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America
Nov 01, 2016, Tantor Audio
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Thunder at the gates: the black Civil War regiments that redeemed America
2016, Basic Books
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-409) and index.
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