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Black sailors in the Civil War : a history of fugitives, freemen and freedmen aboard Union vessels
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"Thousands of black sailors served with valor during the Civil War. Yet few histories have highlighted their significant contributions to the Union's impressive string of naval victories throughout...
"Thousands of black sailors served with valor during the Civil War. Yet few histories have highlighted their significant contributions to the Union's impressive string of naval victories throughout the war, which prompted Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, to declare that if the army could not win the war, the navy would have to. Drawing on official naval records, personal letters and journals, and oral histories of formerly enslaved Americans, this volume documents the service of fugitive, freemen and freed black sailors, 1861-1865"--
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- Creator
- James H. Bruns
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
- Physical Details
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- viii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781476690544, 1476690545, 9781476648392
- OCLC
- on1362514529
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "That will do": Towards Freedom -- Runaways -- Robert Smalls -- Northern Black Mariners -- Recruiting in Major Cities -- Welcome to the Navy -- The Need for Army Contrabands and Its Fleet -- From Overseers to Boatswains Mates -- Blue-Water Black Bluejackets -- Brown-Water Black Bluejackets -- The Great Exodus in 1862 and 1863 -- Seizing the Lower Mississippi: David Farragut, -- the Minority Flag Officer -- Capturing the Upper Mississippi: Andrew Hull -- Foote, the Union's Pious Sailor -- Vicksburg: The Gibraltar of the Confederacy -- Prizes and Problems Along the Red River -- Coffee -- The Safest Service -- Marked Passing -- Black Bluejacket Valor -- The Union Navy's War on Salt -- Mobile Bay -- The Union's Starships -- The Aftermath
Subjects
- United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations.
- African American merchant mariners -- History -- 19th century.
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.