Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels (James H. Bruns-BH) gwinn But cooler heads in the

But cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized the demographic and industrial weight pitted against them

we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion

000 Confederate troops east of the Mississippi River

yet the event still remains overlooked at times in the minds of the public

It established a progressive income tax and created the greenback—paper money

Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels (James H. Bruns-BH) gwinn But cooler heads in theby James H. Bruns Thousands of Black sailors served with valor during the Civil War. Yet few histories have highlighted their contributions to the Union's impressive naval victories throughout the war, which prompted Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, to declare that if the army could not win the war, the navy would have to. Drawing on official naval records, personal letters and journals, and oral histories of formerly enslaved