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Hardcover Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction Book

ISBN: 0807176265

ISBN13: 9780807176269

Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction

Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that he became the first African American commissioned as a combat officer in the United States military. After the war, Swails remained in South Carolina, where he held important positions in the Freedmen's Bureau, helped draft a progressive state constitution, served...

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