Storm Over Key West: The Civil War and the Call of Freedom

by Mike Pride

A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse, "there to undergo a medical examination, preparatory to embarking for Hilton Head, S.C." Montgomery swept away 126 men.

Storm over Key West is a little-known story...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683340930
• ISBN13: 9781683340935
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"