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Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment The Civil War Diary of Burt G Wilder 55th Massachusetts
Author: Richard M. Reid (ed.)
In early 1863, in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Massachusetts began recruiting black soldiers to serve in the Civil War. Although the first regiment formed, the 54th Massachusetts, would become the best-known black regiment in the war, the second regiment raised, the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, performe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781558497399
ISBN-10: 1558497390
Publication Date: 3/31/2010
Pages: 288
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Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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