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Sources

Our thinking about the 29th Connecticut and its history has been shaped by the following sources:

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Bennett, Michael J. Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. The University of North Carolina      Press, 2005.

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Carmichael, Peter S. The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and                               Survived in Civil War Armies. University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

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Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Norton, 1966.

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Costa, Dora L. “Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans.” The Journal of              Economic History. Vol. 70, 3 (2010): 567-592. doi:10.1017/S0022050710000549

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Dean, Eric T. Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. Harvard                       University  Press, 1997. 

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Gannon, Barbara A. The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the                   Republic. University Of North Carolina Press, 2014.

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Humphreys, Margaret. Intensely Human: the Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War.         Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 

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Hunter, Tera W. Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth                                Century.The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.

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Lande, Jonathan. “Trials of Freedom: African American Deserters during the U.S. Civil War,” Journal       of Social History 43, no. 3 (Spring 2016), 693-709.

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Luskey, Brian. Men is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America. University of

     North Carolina Press, 2020.

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Manarin, Louis H. Henrico County Field of Honor. Two volumes. Henrico County, VA, 2004. 

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McPherson, James M. The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War         for the Union. Vintage Books, 1965.

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Murdock, Eugene Converse. One Million Men; the Civil War Draft in the North. The State                       Historical Society Of Wisconsin, 1971.

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Newsome, Hampton. Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864. The         Kent State University Press, 2013.

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Newton, Alexander Herritage. Out of the Briars: An Autobiography. Mnemosyne, 1969.

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Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the Civil War. Da Capo Press, 1989.

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Quinn, Edythe Ann. Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and the Hills Community,                         Westchester County, New York. Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2015.

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Shaffer, Donald R. After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. Lawrence, KS:

     University Press of Kansas, 2004.

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Smith, John David. Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era.                           The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

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Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865. Castle                            Books, 2002.

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Wilson, Sven E. “Prejudice & Policy: Racial Discrimination in the Union Army Disability Pension         System, 1865-1906.” American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 100, Suppl 1, (2010): S56-65.                     doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.172759

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Zwick, Edward, director. Glory. Tri-Star Pictures, 1989.

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