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Auteur(s) : Mezurek, Kelly D.
Titre(s) : For Their Own Cause [Texte imprimé] : the 27th United States Colored Troops / Kelly D. Mezurek
Publication : Kent (Ohio) : The Kent State University Press, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-354 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Civil War in the North
Lien à la collection : Civil War in the North
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 322-340. Index
"The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio
men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North
Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from
home. The men faced daily battles against racism and against inferior treatment, training,
and supplies. They suffered from the physical difficulties of military life, the horrors
of warfare, and homesickness and worried about loved ones left at home without financial
support. Yet their contributions provided a tool that allowed blacks with little military
experience, and their families, to demand social acceptance and acknowledgment of
their citizenship. Their service did not end when their enlistment was over. After
the men of the 27th returned to Ohio, they and their families sought full access to
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and compensatory citizenship rights for their
collective sacrifice. Despite their constant battle against racism, this public behavior
benefited the men and their families. It also meant that the African American role
in the Union victory remained part of local community remembrance and commemoration.
As a result, the experiences of these men from the 27th USCT gave the late-nineteenth-century
Ohio black community legitimate hopes for access to equal civil and social rights
for all. For Their Own Cause is the first comprehensive history of the 27th USCT.
By including rich details culled from private letters and pension files, Mezurek provides
more than a typical regimental study; she demonstrates that the lives of the men of
the 27th USCT help to explain why in the wars that followed, despite the disappointments
and increasingly difficult struggle for African American equality that continued for
far too many decades after the promise of the three Civil War--era constitutional
amendments, blacks in the United States continued to offer their martial support in
the front lines and the back"--Publisher's website
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : 27th United States Colored Troops
Sujet(s) : Militaires noirs américains -- Ohio (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Caroline du Nord (États-Unis) -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Histoire des unités
Virginie (États-Unis) -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Histoire des unités
États-Unis. Army. Colored infantry regiment, 27th (1864-1865)
États-Unis. Army -- Troupes noires américaines -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.708 996073 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1861-1865 - Étude en relation avec les Noirs Américains
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781606352892 (rel.). - ISBN 160635289X (erroné). - ISBN 9781631012228 (erroné).
- ISBN 9781631012235 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46876132g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46876132
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Free but unequal ; The making of a regiment ; Baptism under fire ; The labors
of war ; A soldier's life ; A veteran's life.
