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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom - The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit (Hardcover)
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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom - The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit (Hardcover)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and
Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For
the 250 Union soldiers facing down rebel irregulars on Enoch
Toothman's farm near Butler, Missouri, this was no battle over
abstract principles. These were men of the First Kansas Colored
Infantry, and they were fighting for their own freedom and that of
their families. They belonged to the first black regiment raised in
a northern state, and the first black unit to see combat during the
Civil War. "Soldiers in the Army of Freedom" is the first published
account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its
contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of
the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas Colored
Infantry to its rightful place in American history.
Composed primarily of former slaves, the First Kansas Colored saw
major combat in Missouri, Indian Territory, and Arkansas. Ian
Michael Spurgeon draws upon a wealth of little-known
sources--including soldiers' pension applications--to chart the
intersection of race and military service, and to reveal the
regiment's role in countering white prejudices by defying
stereotypes. Despite naysayers' bigoted predictions--and a
merciless slaughter at the Battle of Poison Spring--these black
soldiers proved themselves as capable as their white counterparts,
and so helped shape the evolving attitudes of leading politicians,
such as Kansas senator James Henry Lane and President Abraham
Lincoln. A long-overdue reconstruction of the regiment's remarkable
combat record, Spurgeon's book brings to life the men of the First
Kansas Colored Infantry in their doubly desperate battle against
the Confederate forces and skepticism within Union ranks.
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