January 2008

Booklists · African Americans in the Civil War

By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 African-American men (mostly former slaves) had made a critical contribution to the victory of the Union by serving in the Army and Navy of the United States. The Library offers students, genealogists, and historians one of the nationï¿½s leading collections of military rosters, regimental histories, and general works on the service and accomplishments of African-American Civil War veterans.

General Reference

“United States Colored Troops.” Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, v. 04, pp. 2002-2004

Gregory J.W. Urwin

General Historical Narratives

Freedom’s Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

Edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland

Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers

Joseph T. Glatthaar

Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865

Noah Andre Trudeau

Black Phalanx

Joseph T. Wilson

Ohio African American Troops

Ohio Negroes in the Civil War (Publications of the Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission)

Charles L. Wesley

Cincinnati and the Civil War

Black Brigade of Cincinnati

Peter H. Clark

“The Black Brigade.” Timeline (Ohio Historical Society). July/August, 2001 (pp. 42-56)

Jim Leecke

“Cincinnati Soldiers Whom Time Forgot.” Cincinnati Enquirer. 2/16/1983. C1

Michael McLeod

Cincinnati and the Civil War: Under Attack (references to the Black Brigade scattered from pp. 79-152)

Robert J. Wimberg

Websites

History of the Colored Troops in the Civil War

United States Colored Troops

Need more suggestions? Contact the Genealogy and Local History Department by phone (513-369-6905) or email and a reference librarian will be happy to assist you.