Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels (James H. Bruns-BH) tickets and Combat from Fort Donelson

and Combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign

History of the Civil War - CSA Tie

by historian Gregory A

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Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels (James H. Bruns-BH) tickets and Combat from Fort Donelsonby James H. Bruns Thousands of Black sailors served with valor during the Civil War. Yet few histories have highlighted their contributions to the Union's impressive 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