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Stephen A. Swails : Black freedom fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction / Gordon C. Rhea.

"Stephen Atkins Swails played significant roles in the Civil War and Reconstruction in South Carolina. Born a free Black in Pennsylvania, Swails volunteered to serve in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first African American regiment raised in the North. He earned distinction in a series of...

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Main Author: Rhea, Gordon C. (Author)
Other title:Black freedom fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Series:Southern biography series.
Subjects:
Swails, Stephen A., > 1832-1900.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States. > Army. > Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Southern States > Race relations.
South Carolina > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
African American legislators > South Carolina > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
African Americans > South Carolina > Biography.
South Carolina > Biography.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
African American legislators.
African Americans.
Employees.
Military participation > African American.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
South Carolina.
Southern States.
United States.
Biographies.
History.

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