U.S. Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Cavalry

Action at Wilson's Wharf, Virginia, 24 May 1864

Edwin W. Besch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6663-1 (ISBN)

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Wilson's Wharf was the first major clash between US Colored Troops and the Army of Northern Virginia. The battle resulted in a victory for the mainly black Union force. This book describes the action in detail and in the larger context of the history of black US servicemen.

Wilson's Wharf was the first major clash between U.S. Colored Troops and the Army of Northern Virginia. The 1st and 10th USCT infantry regiments, supported by two cannon and two U.S. Navy gunboats, faced 11 detachments of veteran Confederate cavalry who were under orders to "kill every man." Union commander General Edward Wild, a one-armed abolitionist, refused General Fitzhugh Lee's demand for surrender, telling Lee to "go to Hell." The battle resulted in a victory for the mainly black Union force.

This book describes the action in detail and in the larger context of the history of black U.S. servicemen, including the British recruitment of runaway slaves during the Revolutionary War, the black Colonial Marines who joined the British in torching Washington in the War of 1812, and the South's attempts to enlist slaves in the final months of the Civil War.

The late Edwin W. Besch was wounded commanding a U.S. Marine Corps rifle company in Vietnam in 1966 and was a CIA analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during 1971–73. He was the author or coauthor of 14 intelligence studies, more than 300 reports, and 100+ professional journal articles on military topics. He lived in Mobile, Alabama.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prelude: The Significance of the Emancipation Proclamation

I. delete The Commanders at Wilson’s Wharf: A Massachusetts

Physician-Soldier vs. a Virginia Professional Soldier

II. delete The Federal and Confederate Units That Fought

III. delete The James River Campaign: Strategy, Preparations

and Movement; Rebel Orders Regarding Captured

U.S. Colored Troops’ Officers and Enlisted Men

IV. delete Wild and His U.S. Colored Troops Create a Stir

in Charles City County

V. delete The Land-Naval “Action at Wilson’s Wharf”

VI. deleteConflicting Casualty Reports: Federal Casualties

Incomplete; Confederate Losses Covered

by Fitzhugh Lee and Richmond Papers

VII. Covering Up a Dismal Confederate Failure

VIII. United States Colored Troops, Black Sailors

and Black Confederates

IX. deleteFort Pocahontas, June 1864–June 1865

X. delete Rediscovery and Preservation of Fort Pocahontas

Appendix A: Federal and Confederate Casualties at Wilson’s Wharf

Appendix B: Casualties At or Near Wilson’s Wharf–Fort Pocahontas During 5 May 1864–June 1865

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2017
Zusatzinfo	52 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4766-6663-6 / 1476666636
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6663-1 / 9781476666631
Zustand	Neuware