Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Formed from the 9th Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent, the 47th USCI (United States Colored Infantry) was one of many African American Regiments which saw service in the U.S. Army in the Civil War and was a participant at the battles of Milken’s Bend, the Yazoo City Expedition, the Siege of Fort Blakely. With very little in the way of surviving accounts from the regiment’s Black enlistees This project seeks to examine the challenges this regiment, like so many other USCT (United States Colored Troops) regiments, faced in terms of manpower, leadership, equipment, and health, arguing that the despite these challenges the 47th’s success as a regiment during the Civil War can be attributed to a mixture of training, high morale, and no small amount of good fortune.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- History, MA
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Open Access Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- School of Arts and Humanities
- Year dc:date.available
- 2022
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Pirnik, Spencer Gregory
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Joshua Goode
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/430
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1461