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  • The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored,) in the war to preserve the Union, 1861-1865 / by William H. Chenery.

    • Text
    • Providence : Snow & Farnham, printers and publishers, 1898.
    • 1898
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Rare 973.7-C (Chenery, W. H. The Fourteenth regiment)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The 28th United States Colored Troops : Indiana's African-Americans go to war, 1863-1865 / by William R. Forstchen.

    • Text
    • 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 98-1852Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Between two fires : Black soldiers in the Civil War / by Joyce Hansen.

    • Text
    • New York : F. Watts, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 95-180Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Blacks in gray uniforms : a new look at the south's most forgotten combat troops 1861-1865 / Philip Thomas Tucker.

    • Text
    • [Charleston, South Carolina] : Arcadia Publishing, [2018]
    • 2018-2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 21-1465Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • After the glory : the struggles of Black Civil War veterans / Donald R. Shaffer.

    • Text
    • Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 04-1322Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Negro's Civil War; how American Negroes felt and acted during the war for the Union [by] James M. McPherson.

    • Text
    • New York, Pantheon Books [1965]
    • 1965
    • 2 Items
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    Text IEC (McPherson, J. M. Negro's Civil War)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Forged in battle : the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and white officers / Joseph T. Glatthaar.

    • Text
    • New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, [1990], ©1990.
    • 1990-1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text E540.N3 G53 1990Off-site
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  • Becoming American under fire : Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era / Christian G. Samito.

    • Text
    • Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2009.
    • 2009
    • 2 Items
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  • The fire of freedom [electronic resource] : Abraham Galloway and the slaves' Civil War / David S. Cecelski.

    • Text
    • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
    • 2012
    • 2 Resources

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  • Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War / Howard C. Westwood ; with a foreword by John Y. Simon.

    • Text
    • Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 91-665Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Thank God my regiment an African one : the Civil War diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels / edited by C.P. Weaver.

    • Text
    • Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 2 Items
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    Text IKL 98-11351Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The fire of freedom : Abraham Galloway & the slaves' Civil War / David S. Cecelski.

    • Text
    • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
    • 2012
    • 2 Items
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    Text IKF (North Carolina) 12-6785Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Becoming American under fire [electronic resource] : Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era / Christian G. Samito.

    • Text
    • Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2009.
    • 2009
    • 2 Resources

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  • The storming of Fort Wagner : Black valor in the Civil War / by Irving Werstein.

    • Text
    • [New York] : Scholastic Book Services, [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 03-1224Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • John Payne Civil War collection, 1858-1923.

    • Mixed material
    • 1858-1923
    • 1 Item

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    http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21114
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    Mixed material Sc MG 199 folder 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • "We want a country" : African-American and Irish-American community life in New Bedford, Massachusetts, during the Civil War era / by Earl Francis Mulderink, III.

    • Text
    • c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 98-1827Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War / Steven M. LaBarre.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text E513.6 5th .L33 2016Off-site
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  • President Lincoln's recruiter : General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War / Michael A. Eggleston.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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    Text E467.1.T43 E35 2013Off-site
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  • Forgotten Black soldiers who served in white regiments during the Civil War / Juanita Patience Moss.

    • Text
    • Westminster, Maryland : Heritage Books, Inc., 2008-2014.
    • 2008-2014
    • 4 Items

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    Text *R-USLHG E540.N3 M67 2008 v. 2Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121

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  • African Canadians in Union blue : enlisting for the cause in the Civil War / Richard M. Reid.

    • Text
    • Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press, [2014]
    • 2014-2014
    • 1 Item
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    Text E540.C25 R45 2014Off-site
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  • President Lincoln's recruiter : General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War / Michael A. Eggleston.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 14-732Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Uncommon valor : a story of race, patriotism, and glory in the final battles of the Civil War / Melvin Claxton and Mark Puls.

    • Text
    • Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item

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    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006842.html
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    Text Sc D 06-535Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Black sailors in the Civil War : a history of fugitives, freemen and freedmen aboard Union vessels / James H. Bruns.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
    • 2023
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 23-830Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Forgotten black soldiers who served in white regiments during the Civil War / by Juanita Patience Moss.

    • Text
    • Westminster, MD. : Heritage Books, Inc., 2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
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    Text E540.N3 M67 2008Off-site
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  • Black dispatches : Black American contributions to Union intelligence during the Civil War / P.K. Rose.

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C.] : Center for the Study of Intelligence, [1999].
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text PrEx 3.10/7:DI 7Off-site
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  • The Black phalanx; a history of the Negro soldiers of the United States in the wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65.

    • Text
    • Hartford, American Pub. Co. [©1887]
    • 1887
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E185.63 .W8zOff-site
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  • Civil War citizens : race, ethnicity, and identity in America's bloodiest conflict / edited by Susannah J. Ural.

    • Text
    • New York : New York University Press, c2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
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    Text IE 11-186Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Civil War citizens [electronic resource] : race, ethnicity, and identity in America's bloodiest conflict / edited by Susannah J. Ural.

    • Text
    • New York : New York University Press, c2010.
    • 2010
    • 2 Resources

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  • The Louisiana Native Guards [electronic resource] : The Black Military Experience During the Civil War / James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.

    • Text
    • Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1995
    • 1995
    • 2 Resources

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  • Black dispatches : Black American contributions to Union intelligence during the Civil War / P.K. Rose.

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C.] : Center for the Study of Intelligence, [1999].
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text PrEx 3.10/7:DI 7Off-site
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  • Civil War and living history reenacting about "people of color" : how to begin, what to wear, why reenact / Mary L. Jackson Fears ; illustrated by Gina Gillislee Hickman and Joel Van Fears, Sr.

    • Text
    • Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
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    Text E540.N3 F43 2004Off-site
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  • Diary of a contraband : the Civil War passage of a Black sailor / [edited by] William B. Gould IV.

    • Text
    • Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 03-424Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Eagles on their buttons : a Black infantry regiment in the Civil War / Versalle F. Washington.

    • Text
    • Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 99-863Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • For Their Own Cause [electronic resource] : The 27th United States Colored Troops / Kelly D. Mezurek.

    • Text
    • Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 2 Resources

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  • Campfires of freedom : the camp life of Black soldiers during the Civil War / Keith P. Wilson.

    • Text
    • Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 03-370Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • From underground railroad to rebel refuge : Canada and the Civil War / Brian Martin.

    • Text
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada : ECW Press, [2022]
    • 2022-2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 23-627Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Black Civil War soldiers of Illinois : the story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry / Edward A. Miller, Jr.

    • Text
    • Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E492.94 29th .M55 1998Off-site
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  • Thunder at the gates : the black Civil War regiments that redeemed America / Douglas R. Egerton.

    • Text
    • New York : Basic Books, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 16-13829Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Freedom's soldiers : the Black military experience in the Civil War / edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland.

    • Text
    • Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 98-936Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Whom we would never more see : history and archaeology recover the lives and deaths of African American Civil War soldiers on Folly Island, South Carolina / by Steven D. Smith.

    • Text
    • Columbia, S.C. : South Carolina Dept. of Archives & History, c[1993].
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 01-1030Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Freedom for themselves [electronic resource] : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era / Richard M. Reid.

    • Text
    • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
    • 2008
    • 2 Resources

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  • The Negro's Civil War : how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union / James M. McPherson.

    • Text
    • New York : Vintage Books, 2003.
    • 2003-1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text E540.N3 M25 2003Off-site
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  • Freedom's witness : the Civil War correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner / edited by Jean Lee Cole with a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean.

    • Text
    • Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2013.
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 14-460Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Breaking the chains : African-American slave resistance / William Loren Katz.

    • Text
    • New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International Pub. Group, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 90-537Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • After the glory : the struggles of Black Civil War veterans / Donald R. Shaffer.

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    • Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
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    Text E540.N3 S53 2004Off-site
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  • Freedom's witness [electronic resource] : the Civil War correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner / edited by Jean Lee Cole with a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean.

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    • Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2013.
    • 2013
    • 2 Resources

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  • The Civil War in the South Carolina lowcountry : how a Confederate artillery battery and a Black Union regiment defined the war / Ron Roth.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
    • 2020
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 20-309Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Firebrand of liberty : the story of two Black regiments that changed the course of the Civil War / Stephen V. Ash.

    • Text
    • New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.
    • 2008
    • 2 Items
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    Text IEC 08-5619Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The book of first, last, etcetera : Black soldiers during the Civil War era, 1861-1867 / John Raymond Gourdin.

    • Text
    • Columbia, MD : J&M Publishers, c2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 04-581Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Louisiana Native Guards : the Black military experience during the Civil War / James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.

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    • Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 2 Items
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    Text IEC 96-2888Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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