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Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867
“Annual Message of the President.” 39th Cong., 1st sess., H. Ex. Doc. 1 (serial
1,244).
“Condition and Treatment of Colored Refugees.” 38th Cong., 2d sess., S. Ex.
Doc. 28 (serial 1,209).
“Condition of Affairs in Texas.” 39th Cong., 2d sess. H. Ex. Doc. 61 (serial
1,292).
“Diary and Correspondence of Salmon P. Chase.” Annual Report of the American
Historical Association for . . . 1902. 57th Cong., 2d sess., H. Doc. 461, pt. 2
(serial 4,543).
“Fort Pillow Massacre.” 38th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rpt. 65 (serial 1,206).
Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865. 58th
Cong., 2d sess., S. Doc. 234 (7 vols., serials 4,610–4,616).
“Memphis Riots and Massacres.” 39th Cong., 1st sess, H. Rpt. 101 (serial 1,274).
“Mexico.” 39th Cong., 2d sess., H. Ex. Doc. 17 (serial 1,288).
“Occupation of Mexican Territory.” 39th Cong., 2d sess., H. Ex. Doc. 8 (serial
1,287).
“Present Condition of Mexico.” 39th Cong., 2d sess., H. Ex. Doc. 76 (serial
1,292).
Report of the Eleventh Census of the United States, 1890, Part 2. 52d Cong., 1st
sess., H. Misc. Doc. 340, pt. 19 (serial 3,019).
Report of the Secretary of War for 1863. 38th Cong., 1st sess., H. Ex. Doc. 1, vol.
5 (serial 1,184).
Report of the Secretary of War for 1864. 38th Cong., 2d sess., H. Ex. Doc. 83
(serial 1,230).
Report of the Secretary of War for 1865. 38th Cong., 1st sess., H. Ex. Doc. 1, vol.
3, pt. 1 (serial 1,249).
Among the scholarly works cited in this book, three in particular stand out:
Dudley T. Cornish’s The Sable Arm; Joseph T. Glatthaar’s Forged in Battle; and the
series of documentary collections produced by the Freedmen and Southern Society
Project at the University of Maryland, beginning in 1982, which runs to five
volumes so far. 2
Cornish’s book was the first scholarly work devoted entirely to the U.S.
Colored Troops. While the book has attained the status of a classic, Cornish’s
research at the National Archives was apparently limited to the papers of
Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, correspondence of the Colored Troops
Bureau, and the regimental books of the 79th and 82d U.S. Colored Infantries
(formerly the 1st and 2d Kansas Colored Infantries). Only some 10 percent of
Cornish’s citations are of newspapers and unpublished material not available at
the Kansas State Historical Society, but that is to be expected in a work that the
author produced while teaching at a state teacher’s college during the pre-
Sputnik era, before travel grants were widely available and when passenger
jets and interstate highways had not yet made visits to the National Archives
almost routine for historians.
2 Full bibliographical citations appear below.