Freedom's witness : the Civil War correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner / edited by Jean Lee Cole with a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean.

Freedom's witness : the Civil War correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner / edited by Jean Lee Cole with a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean.

In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper The Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, D.C., and, later, as one of the Union army’s firs...

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Main Author: Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915
Contributors: Cole, Jean Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2013
Edition:First edition.
Series:Regenerations.
Subjects:
Turner, Henry McNeal, > 1834-1915 > Correspondence.
United States. > Army > Chaplains > Correspondence.
African Methodist Episcopal Church > Clergy > Correspondence.
United States. > Army > African American troops > History > 19th century.
African American clergy > Correspondence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Chaplains.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Genre/Form:Personal Narrative, Personal narratives
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Aaron Sheehan-Dean
  • Introduction
  • Emancipation and Enlistment (March 22, 1862-April 18, 1863)
  • Petersburg (June 25, 1864-December 17, 1864)
  • Fort Fisher (January 7, 1865-February 18, 1865)
  • Freeing Slaves, Meeting Sherman (February 25, 1865-June 10, 1865)
  • Roanoke Island (June 24, 1865-August 5, 1865).

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