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On the altar of freedom : a black soldier's Civil War letters from the front / James Henry Gooding ; edited by Virginia Matzke Adams ; foreword by James M. McPherson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, �1991.Description: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 139 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585139024
  • 9780585139029
  • 9781122055420
  • 1122055420
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the altar of freedom.DDC classification:
  • 973.7/415/092 B 92 20
LOC classification:
  • E513.5 54th .G66 1991eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • NP 6010
Online resources:
Contents:
Looking quite like soldiers -- A first class regiment -- Something stirring to record -- Yankee pandemonium -- A monotonous state of affairs -- Sumter still holds out -- Waiting till something turns up -- I am pained to inform you -- Appendix A: Correspondence in the issue of equal pay -- Appendix B: Six poems composed at sea by Henry Gooding.
Summary: "Our correspondent, 'J.H.G., ' is a member of Co. C., of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. He is a colored man belonging to this city, and his letters are printed by us, verbatim et literatim, as we receive them. He is a truthful and intelligent correspondent, and a good soldier."--The Editors, New Bedford (Massachusetts) Mercury, August 1863.
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"Our correspondent, 'J.H.G., ' is a member of Co. C., of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. He is a colored man belonging to this city, and his letters are printed by us, verbatim et literatim, as we receive them. He is a truthful and intelligent correspondent, and a good soldier."--The Editors, New Bedford (Massachusetts) Mercury, August 1863.

Print version record.

Looking quite like soldiers -- A first class regiment -- Something stirring to record -- Yankee pandemonium -- A monotonous state of affairs -- Sumter still holds out -- Waiting till something turns up -- I am pained to inform you -- Appendix A: Correspondence in the issue of equal pay -- Appendix B: Six poems composed at sea by Henry Gooding.

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