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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"black troops"”.
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The selection and preparation of white officers for the command of black troops in the American Civil War: A study of the 41st and 100th U.S. Colored Infantry
… and the state militia system. The arrival of black troops in the Union Army led to a radical, if temporary, transformation in the Army's process for the selection and preparation of officers—but only for the white officers who served with black regiments. Overtly political or casual processes …
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Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… sources—including court martial records and black veterans’ pension files—to examine the experiences of black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the racially and ethnically diverse communities that …
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Witness to woundedness in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey, and Derek Walcott.
… her mother's memory after her murder and the Black troops of the Native Guard who fought on the side of the Union in the U.S. Civil War. In the chapter on Thrall (2012), I focus on how she poetically counters epistemological perspectives that objectify and instrumentalize others, particularly …
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
… and eventually armed African Americans. Rebel troops were not blind to the war’s negative effects on the peculiar institution. They noted black people’s many disloyal actions, and some came to believe that slavery was not worth holding onto if it would undermine the Southern war effort. But …