Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers

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Sixteen months after the start of the American Civil War, the Federal government, having vastly underestimated the length and manpower demands of the war, started to recruit black soldiers. This revolutionary policy gave 180,000 free blacks and former slaves the opportunity to prove themselves at the battlefield as a part of america Colored Troops. By the end of the war, 37,000 in their ranks had given their lives for the reason for freedom. In Forged in Battle, at the start published in 1990, award-winning historian Joseph T. Glatthaar re-creates the events that gave these troops and their 7,000 white officers justifiable pride in their contributions to the Union victory and hope of equality within the years yet to come. Unfortunately, as Glatthaar poignantly demonstrates, memory of america Colored Troops’ heroic sacrifices soon faded in the back of the prejudice that would plague the armed forces for some other century.

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