Blacks in Gray Uniforms: A New Look at the South's Most Forgotten Combat Troops 1861-1865 (Phillip Thomas Tucker - BH) town The more dismal side of

The more dismal side of the Gettysburg campaign is covered: burials of Union and Confederate corpses

Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them

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Blacks in Gray Uniforms: A New Look at the South's Most Forgotten Combat Troops 1861-1865 (Phillip Thomas Tucker - BH) town The more dismal side ofby Phillip Thomas Tucker This ground breaking book takes an insightful and close "New Look" at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War the long overlooked battlefield contributions of the most forgotten fighting men of the Civil War, Black Confederates. With the release of the popular 1989 film Glory, the American public first learned about the heroism of the black troops of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and their courageous