United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American
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Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2011), by William A. Dobak (PDF with commentary at army.mil)- The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images at MOA)
- The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity (new edition; Boston: A. G. Brown and Co., 1880), by William Wells Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Preceded by a Review of the Military Services of Negroes in Ancient and Modern Times (New York: Harper and Bros., 1888), by George Washington Williams
- Brief Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army, in North Carolina in the Spring of 1862, After the Battle of Newbern (New York: V. Colyer, 1864), by Vincent Colyer (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub-Assistant Commissioner, Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U. S. Colored Troops (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1868), by Frank A. Rollin
- "This is a War for the Utter Extinction of Slavery": The Civil War Letters of James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, Hospital Steward, 1st Michigan Colored Infantry (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2020), by James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, ed. by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)
- Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict (New York and London: New York University Press, c2010), ed. by Susannah J. Ural (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)
- Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub-Assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U. S. Colored Troops (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883), by Frank A. Rollin
- Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War, by P. K. Rose (HTML at webharvest.gov)
- The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65 (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1888), by Joseph T. Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Army Life in a Black Regiment (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1870), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865 (second edition revised and corrected, with appendix on treatment of Black POWs; Boston: Boston Book Co., 1894), by Luis F. Emilio (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Brief Sketch of the Organization and Services of the Fifty-Ninth Regiment of United States Colored Infantry, and Biographical Sketches, by Robert Cowden (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (Boston: The author, 1902), by Susie King Taylor
- Samuel Hall, 47 Years a Slave: A Brief Story of His Life Before and After Freedom Came to Him (Washington, IA: Journal Print, 1912), by Samuel Hall, ed. by Orville Elder (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Army Life in a Black Regiment (from a 1900 reprint), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)
- Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- A Slave's Adventures Toward Freedom: Not Fiction, but the True Story of a Struggle (1918), by Peter Bruner (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 (Pinopolis, SC: St. John's Hunting Club, 1921), by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, contrib. by Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan
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Ohio Negroes in the Civil War. (Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society, 1962), by Charles H. Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)- Organization and administration of the Union army, 1861-1865 ([Cedar Rapids? Ia.], 1926), by Fred A. Shannon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Report of the Committee on volunteering (Club house, 1864), by N.Y.) Union League Club (New York, Vincent Colyer, and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The diary of James T. Ayers : Civil War recruiter (Printed by the authority of the State of Illinois, 1947), by James T. Ayers and John Hope Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Negroes and the national war effort (Workers Library Publishers, 1942), by Frederick Douglass and James W. Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- George Washington and General Jackson, on Negro soldiers ... (H.C. Baird, 1863), by Henry Carey Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
- Nation's sin and punishment (American News Company, 1864), by Stephen Alexander Hodgman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The black phalanx; a history of the Negro soldiers of the United States in the wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65. (American Pub. Co., 1897), by Joseph T. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Free military school for applicants for command of colored troops, no. 1210 chestnut street, Philadelphia, established by the Supervisory committee for recruiting colored regiments, John H. Taggart, chief predeptor. (King & Baird, 1864), by Philadelphia. Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (page images at HathiTrust)
- Autobiography of James L. Smith : including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- First organization of colored troops in the State of New York, to aid in suppressing the slave-holders' rebellion : statements concerning the origin, difficulties and success of the movement, including official documents, military testimonials, proceedings of the "Union League Club," etc. (Baker & Godwin, printers, 1864), by New York Association for Colored Volunteers, Henry O'Reilly, and N.Y.) Union League Club (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
- Free military school for applicants for commands of colored troops, no. 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia : established by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, chief preceptor, John H. Taggart, late colonel 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves. (King & Baird, Printers, 1864), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (page images at HathiTrust)
- General Washington and General Jackson, on negro soldiers. (H. C. Baird, 1863), by Henry Carey Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
- Notes on colored troops and military colonies on southern soil. By an officer of the 9th Army. (New-York, 1863), by Stephen B. Brague and Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania on the bill to raise additional soldiers. (Towers & Co., printers, 1863), by Thaddeus Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
- My service in the U.S. colored cavalry : a paper read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908 (s.n., 1908), by Frederick W. Browne and Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Ohio Commandery (page images at HathiTrust)
- Free military school for applicants for commands of colored troops (King & Baird, printers, 1864), by Pa.) Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
- Address by Daniel Ullmann, LL.D., before the Soldier's and Sailor's Union of the State of New York, on the organization of colored troops and the regeneration of the South (Printed at the Great Republic Office, 1868), by Daniel Ullmann, African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The alliance with the negro. (L. Towers & co., printers, 1862), by Charles John Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
- A history of the Negro troops in the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 : preceded by a review of the military services of Negroes in ancient and modern times (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by George Washington Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2011), by William A. Dobak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Policy of employing Negro troops : speech of H.C. Chambers, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the Confederate States, Thursday, November 10, 1864 .... (s.n., 1864), by Henry Cousins Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Fifty-fifth Massachusetts volunteer infantry. ([Brookline, 1917), by Burt G. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
- Notes on colored troops and military colonies on Southern soil ([s.n.], 1863), by Officer of the 9th Army Corps and S. B. Brague (page images at HathiTrust)
- Speech [of Hon. J.F. Wilson, of Iowa,] on the bill to raise additional soldiers, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 2, 1863. (Towers, printers, 1863), by James F. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Washington and Jackson on Negro soldiers (H.C. Baird, 1863), by Henry Carey Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
- Addresses of the Hon. W.D. Kelley, Miss Anna E. Dickinson, and Mr. Frederick Douglass : at a mass meeting ... Philadelphia, July 6, 1863, for the promotion of colored enlistments. ([Philadelphia, 1863), by William D. Kelley, Frederick Douglass, Anna E. Dickinson, and United States. Commission for United States Colored Troops (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Fifty-fifth Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, colord [sic], June 1863-September 1865 (Riverdale Press, 1919), by Burt G. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
- The colored brigade. ([Philadelphia] : J.H. Johnson, song publisher, stationer and printer, No. 7 N. 10th St., Phila, [between 1862 and 1876], 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colored volunteer ([Philadelphia] : Johnson, song publisher, 7 N. 10th St., Phila, [between 1863 and 1865], 1863), by Tom Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colored volunteer ([Philadelphia] : Published by Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, [between 1863 and 1865], 1863), by Tom Craig and Pa.) Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
- Report of the services rendered by the freed people to the United States army, in North Carolina, in the spring of 1862, after the battle of Newbern. (V. Colyer, 1864), by Vincent Colyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches of army life in the sixties ([Newark, Ohio] : [Mary Belle Clapp Cline and Katharine B. Clapp Horton], [1910], 1910), by Henry S. Clapp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Enlisting soldiers. ([Philadelphia] : Published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, [between 1863 and 1865], 1863), by Pa.) Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bill Yopp, "10-Cent Bill" (Confederate Soldiers Home, 1920), by R. de T. Lawrence and Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia (page images at HathiTrust)
- A slave's adventures toward freedom : not fiction, but the true story of a struggle ([publisher not identified], 1918), by Peter Bruner (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Civil War : memories of the rebellion (Rogers & Sherwood, 1879), by John Cochrane and Henry O'Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
- Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (U.S. Army, Center of Military History ;, 2011), by William A. Dobak and Center of Military History (page images at HathiTrust)
- Speech of Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio on the enlistment of Negro soldiers, delivered during the debate in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1863. (Washington, 1862), by George H. Pendleton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States colored troops, late 1st S. C. Volunteers, by Susie King Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
- Out of the Briars: An Autobiography and Sketch of the Twenty-ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, by A. H. Newton, contrib. by J. P. Sampson (Gutenberg ebook)
- What the Negro Has Done for Liberty in America, by John Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
- Letters and Discussions on the Formation of Colored Regiments,: and the Duty of the Colored People in Regard to the Great Slaveholders' Rebellion, in the United States of America, by Alfred M. Green (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
- My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry: A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908, by Frederick W. Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Black Phalanx: African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, by Joseph T. Wilson (Gutenberg ebook)
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