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Emancipation Cause
Joseph T. Wilson, The Black Phalanx: A History of Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65, 1890
Black soldiers made up approximately 9 percent of U.S. armies during the Civil War, and Wilson, a veteran, wrote the first full-scale history of African American participants. He chronicled the service of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) units, concluding that "Their devotion has been not only unappreciated, but it has failed to receive a fitting commemoration in pages of national history." |