On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front

Gooding, James Henry; Adams, Virginia M.

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Describes what the Civil War was like for a Black soldier

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Gooding belonged to the 54th Massachusetts, the black Union regiment celebrated in the film Glory ; here his wartime letters to the New Bedford (Mass.) Mercury are augmented with a foreword, annotations and appendixes.
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