LEADER 03894oam 2200541 450 001 9910798731203321 005 20231127205903.0 010 $a1-63101-222-3 010 $a1-63101-223-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000888807 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4722553 035 $a(OCoLC)960166499 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4722553 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11286677 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL966149 035 $a(OCoLC)941140277 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000888807 100 $a20160222h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFor their own cause $ethe 27th United States Colored Troops /$fKelly D. Mezurek 210 1$aKent, Ohio :$cThe Kent State University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (365 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aCivil War in the North 311 0 $a1-60635-289-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFree but unequal -- The making of a regiment -- Baptism under fire -- The labors of war -- A soldier's life -- A veteran's life. 330 $a"The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from home. The men faced daily battles against racism and against inferior treatment, training, and supplies. They suffered from the physical difficulties of military life, the horrors of warfare, and homesickness and worried about loved ones left at home without financial support. Yet their contributions provided a tool that allowed blacks with little military experience, and their families, to demand social acceptance and acknowledgment of their citizenship. Their service did not end when their enlistment was over. After the men of the 27th returned to Ohio, they and their families sought full access to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and compensatory citizenship rights for their collective sacrifice. Despite their constant battle against racism, this public behavior benefited the men and their families. It also meant that the African American role in the Union victory remained part of local community remembrance and commemoration. As a result, the experiences of these men from the 27th USCT gave the late-nineteenth-century Ohio black community legitimate hopes for access to equal civil and social rights for all. For Their Own Cause is the first comprehensive history of the 27th USCT. By including rich details culled from private letters and pension files, Mezurek provides more than a typical regimental study; she demonstrates that the lives of the men of the 27th USCT help to explain why in the wars that followed, despite the disappointments and increasingly difficult struggle for African American equality that continued for far too many decades after the promise of the three Civil War--era constitutional amendments, blacks in the United States continued to offer their martial support in the front lines and the back"--Publisher's website 410 0$aCivil War in the North. 606 $aAfrican American soldiers$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xRegimental histories 607 $aOhio$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xRegimental histories 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xParticipation, African American 615 0$aAfrican American soldiers$xHistory 676 $a973.7/415 700 $aMezurek$b Kelly D.$01496789 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798731203321 996 $aFor their own cause$93721634 997 $aUNINA