That the Confederacy in its waning days frantically turned to the idea of arming slaves has long been known by all close students of the Civil War. Yet the more

Little has been written about the military role of African Americans in military campaigns of the United States despite the fact that men and women of color wer

An historical account of the role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War.

The first serious scholarship on a forgotten Civil War issue. Eleven essays detail the experiences of black servants and soldiers in the Conferderate Army. One

The author, a former teacher at the Citadel, looks at the various schools such as The Citadel, Texas A & M, Auburn, Clemson, Virginia Military Institute (VMI),