U.S. War Department General Order 143 Establishing the Bureau of U.S. Colored Troops

Bibliography

Books

• Dobak, William A. Freedom by the Sword: The US Colored Troops, 1862–1867. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013.
• Eggleston, Michael A. President Lincoln's Recruiter: General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.
• Fisher, Ernest F. Guardians of the Republic: A History of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps of the U.S. Army. New York: Stackpole Books, 2001.
• McPherson, James M. The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted during the War for the Union. 1965. Reprint. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
• Mendez, James G. A Great Sacrifice: Northern Black Soldiers, Their Families, and the Experience of Civil War. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019.
• Mezurek, Kelly D. For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016.
• Smith, John David, ed. Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• Smith, John David. Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
• Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862–1865. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.

Websites

• “The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War.” National Archives “Teaching with Documents” website. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/.