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U.S. Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Cavalry: Action at Wilson's Wharf, Virginia, 24 May 1864 Paperback - 2017

by Edwin W. Besch


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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.

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  • Title U.S. Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Cavalry: Action at Wilson's Wharf, Virginia, 24 May 1864
  • Author Edwin W. Besch
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 292
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc.
  • Date 2017-05-23
  • ISBN 9781476666631 / 1476666636
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
    • Topical: Black History
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects African American soldiers - History - 19th, United States - History - Civil War,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017005802
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.741

About the author

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.
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