A History Of The Negro Troops in The War Of The Rebellion 1861-1865; preceded by A Review of the Military Services of Negroes in Ancient and Modern Times
New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1968. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, apparently unused example, tasteful bookplate front fre endpaper. Issued without dust jacket. Hardcover in black clotnh with spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait engraving of Colonel Williams. xvi+ 353 pp. with index. Facsimile reissue of rare original 1888 edition. A classictext in both African American and Civil War history. George Washington Williams served in the U.S. Colored Troops, one of some 200,000 Black men who fought for the Union. He gathered the material for this book from officila government records both U.S. and foreign as well as from orderly books and personal recollections of officers who commanded Negro trops during the Civil War. Fine. Item #E27728
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