Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels (James H. Bruns-BH) American civil war and she longs to earn

and she longs to earn the respect of the people of City Point

from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force One

led by Winfield Scott Hancock

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Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels (James H. Bruns-BH) American civil war and she longs to earnby James H. Bruns Thousands of Black sailors served with valor during the Civil War. Yet few histories have highlighted their contributions to the Union's impressive naval victories throughout the war, which prompted Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, to declare that if the army could not win the war, the navy would have to. Drawing on official naval records, personal letters and journals, and oral histories of formerly enslaved