Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 2 Volume Paperback Set: Volume 1, The Black Military Experience : Series II (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Editorial method; Symbols and abbreviations; The Black Military Experience 1861?1867: Part I. Black Enlistment and the Collapse of Chattel Bondage: 1. Early recruitment: lowcountry South Caroline, Georgia and Florida, Louisiana, and Kansas; 2. Recruitment in the free states and free-state recruitment in the occupied South; 3. Recruitment in tidewater Virginia and North Carolina, the Mississippi Valley and Tennessee; 4. Recruitment in the Border states: Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky; 5. Confederate recruitment; Part II. The Structure of Black Military Life: Limits and Opportunities: 6. Black officers; 7. Fighting on two fronts: the struggle for equal pay; 8. Black soldiers and their officers; 9. Military discipline, punishment and justice; Part III. Black Military Life: On Duty: 10. Duties: 'instead of the musket it is the spad and the wheelbarrow and the axe'; 11. Combat: 'to strike a manly blow for the liberty of your race'; 12. Prisoners of war; Part IV. Black Military Life: Off Duty: 13. Camp life; 14. Education; 15. Health; 16. A brothers' war: black soldiers and their kinfolk; Part V. Black Soldiers in Postwar America: 17. Black soldiers in the postwar Army of occupation; 18. Home from the war: discharged black soldiers; Index.