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Private No More - The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry (Paperback)
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Private No More - The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry (Paperback)
Series: New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Series
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The John Lovejoy Murray collection of letters contains insights
into the experiences of an African American soldier and his
regiment during the Civil War. John Lovejoy Murray, a private in
Company E, 102nd USCT, died of disease in a Charleston hospital on
April 12, 1865. Through John Murray's letters, readers can
experience the war through the eyes of a literate northern Black
soldier. His is the story of the soldiers who did not receive
accolades for their heroic actions in battle, the ones who spent
more time on picket and fatigue duty than on the front lines, the
ones who died from disease more than they did of battle-related
wounds. Murray's letters are significant because they are ordinary
in some respects yet extraordinary in others. Some of the
activities and sentiments portrayed in the letters are hardly
distinguishable from those described in letters written by White
soldiers. In other ways, the letters represent a perspective
distinctly from a Black soldier in the Union army. Although many of
his experiences may have been typical, John Lovejoy Murray himself,
a literate, freeborn, northern Black man, was atypical among Union
Black soldiers.
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