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Book, 2017
Current format, Book, 2017, First edition, Available .
Book, 2017
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George Stephens and James Henry Gooding felt duty-bound to enlist in the Union Army and prove to the country that "they were worthy to be free men." Among the first to sign up for the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, an all-Black regiment, they eagerly recruited other free Black men to join them. But it wasn't long before Stephens and Gooding discovered the harsh realities of army life. As soldiers and also as the war's first Black correspondents, both men wrote eyewitness reports exposing the dangers and tragedies they experienced on and off the battle field, as well as the shocking injustices they endured in their own army.
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