books.google.com - This book refutes the historical slander that blacks did not fight for their emancipation from slavery. At first harshly rejected in their attempts to enlist in the Union army, blacks were eventually accepted into the service--often through the efforts of individual generals who, frustrated with bureaucratic...http://books.google.com/books/about/Black_Union_Soldiers_in_the_Civil_War.html?id=UDJsRR7DcqQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBlack Union Soldiers in the Civil War
