Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction

by Gordon C Rhea and Gordon C. Rhea

Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that he became the first African American commissioned as a combat officer in the United States military. After the war, Swails remained in South Carolina, where he held important positions in the Freedmen's Bureau, helped draft a progressive state constitution, served...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807176265
• ISBN13: 9780807176269
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 9.3"