STORM OVER KEY WEST: The Civil War and the Call of Freedom
A few weeks after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, colonel James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse. Here Pride tells the little known story of Key West during the Civil War. Illus.
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 307
Publisher: Pineapple Press
Publishing status: Current
ISBN: 9781683340935
Item #: 4674960