Eagles on Their Buttons: A Black Infantry Regiment in the Civil War (Shades of Blue and Gray Series)
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"Once let a black man get upon his person the brass letters 'US,' let him get an eagle on his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pockets and there is no power on earth which can deny that he had earned the right to citizenship in the United States."-Frederick Douglas
A fascinating examination of the Fifth Regiment of Infantry, United States Colored Troops-the Union Army's first black regiment from Ohio. Although the Fifth USCT was one of more than 150 regiments of black troops making up more than 10 percent of the Union Army at the end of the war, it was unique. The men serving in the Fifth USCT were freemen who were raised in a northern state and saw serving in the army both as a way to gain equal rights under the law and as an opportunity to prove their worth as men.
Eagles on Their Buttons: A Black Infantry Regiment in the Civil War (Shades of Blue and Gray Series),Versalle F. Washington,University of Missouri Press,0826212344,African American soldiers,Army,Army.,Blacks In The Military,Civil War, 1861-1865,Colored Infantry Regiment, 5th,Colored Infantry Regiment, 5th (1863-1865),Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor,History,History - Military / War,History: American,Military History - U.S. Civil War,Modern - 19th Century,Registers,United States,United States - Civil War,United States.,American history: c 1800 to c 1900,Civil war,USA
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