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Johns Hopkins University Press recently published Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops written by Bob Luke and John David Smith. After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, African Americans volunteered to fight for the Union. Soldiering for Freedom seeks to explain how these men were recruited, used, treated during the Civil War.
{{Read more|Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of Interview:African American Soldiers During the Confederacy?”]Civil War: Interview with Author Bob Luke}}
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