THE SABLE ARM BLACK TROOPS IN THE UNION ARMY, 1861-1865

Cornish, Dudley Taylor

ISBN 10: 070060328X / ISBN 13: 9780700603282

Published by University Press of Kansas, 1987

About this Item

Contents Include: "We are ready and would go.,"; "The ultras in their eagerness have spoilt all"; "And who better to begin the work"; :Soon have an army"; No man can hender me", Etc. Card Covers. Good to good+ tight condition. Quoted as "one of the one hundred best books ever written on the Civil War." 342 pages. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SABLE ARM BLACK TROOPS IN THE UNION ARMY, 1861-1865
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 070060328X
• ISBN 13: 9780700603282
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

A bona fide classic, the Sable Arm was the first work to fully chronicle the remarkable story of the nearly 180,000 black troops who served in the Union army. Hailed by such distinguished historians as T. Harry Williams ("superbly written") and George B. Tindall ("a volume of permanent value"), this work paved the way for the exploration of the black military experience in other wars. The present edition, with a new foreword and bibliographical essay, makes available once again a pioneering work that will be especially useful for scholars and students of Civil War, black, and military history.

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.