Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America

by Douglas R. Egerton

Book Overview

An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of the North responded with outrage-southerners promised to execute any black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465096646
• ISBN13: 9780465096640
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"