Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism, and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War

by Melvin Claxton and Mark Puls

Book Overview

"With the air of intimacy that only comes from intensive research, Uncommon Valor vividly shows us the contributions made by escaped slaves, ex-slaves, and freemen to the Union cause." --Gene Smith, author of Lee and Grant Christian Fleetwood had mixed feelings about America, and America had mixed feelings about him. As a free twenty-three-year-old black man living in Baltimore, with the Civil War raging, he understood well all that was worrisome...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471468231
• ISBN13: 9780471468233
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 8.1"