On the altar of freedom : a black soldier's Civil War letters from the front /

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Author / Creator:	Gooding, James Henry, 1837-1864
Imprint:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1991.
Description:	xxxvii, 139 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Gooding, James Henry, -- 1837-1864 -- Correspondence. Gooding, James Henry, -- 1837-1864. United States. -- Army. -- Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865) -- Biography. United States. -- Army. -- Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865) American Civil War (1861-1865) African Americans -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- Correspondence. Soldiers -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- Correspondence. African Americans. Military participation -- African American. Soldiers. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American Massachusetts -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American New Bedford (Mass.) -- Biography. Massachusetts. Massachusetts -- New Bedford. United States. Biography. History. Records and correspondence.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1190196

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Other authors / contributors:	Adams, Virginia M.
ISBN:	0870237454 (alk. paper) : $21.95
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. Looking Quite like Soldiers Massachusetts, March Through May 1863
2. A First Class Regiment South Carolina and Georgia, June 1863
3. Something Stirring to Record Charleston, South Carolina, July 1863
4. Yankee Pandemonium Charleston, South Carolina, August and September 1863
5. A Monotonous State of Affairs Charleston, South Carolina, September and October 1863
6. Sumter Still Holds Out
7. Waiting Till Something Turns Up Charleston, South Carolina, December 1863 and January 1864
8. I Am Pained to Inform You South Carolina and Florida, February 1864
Appendix A. Correspondence on the Issue of Equal Pay
Appendix B. Six Poems Composed at Sea by Henry Gooding
Index

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