The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 - Hardcover

Cornish, Dudley Taylor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 070060345X ISBN 13: 9780700603459

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1989

Synopsis

Cornish, Dudley Taylor, Sable Arm, The: Black Troops In The Union Army, 1861-1865

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"The most valuable book ever written on the topic."--Herman Hattaway, coauthor of How the North Won

"Superbly written. . . . A major study . . . on a neglected side of the war."--T. Harry Williams, author of Lincoln and His Generals

"Pioneering. . . . Readable, interesting, sound, with important insights."--James M. McPherson, author of The Negro's Civil War

"A volume of permanent value."--George B. Tindall, author of The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945

About the Author:

Dudley Tatlor Cornish is professor emeritus of American history at Pittsburg State University. His numerous publications include the section "The Negro" in the monumental bibliography Civil War Books and the chapter "Slaves No More" in The Embattled Confederacy: Volume Three of The Image of War, 1861-1865.

Herman Hattaway, professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is author of How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 070060345X
• ISBN 13: 9780700603459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342