The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War (Steven M. LaBarre - BH) field the invasion that altered the

the invasion that altered the flow of the war

by Joseph E Mieczkowski

Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidebook to what's new and what's noteworthy in this unfolding story -a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time

In January 1863

The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War (Steven M. LaBarre - BH) field the invasion that altered theFifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War In January 1863, a long anticipated military order arrived on the desk of Massachusetts Governor John Andrew. President Lincolns secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, had granted the governor authority to raise regiments of black soldiers. Two unitsthe 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantrywere soon mustered and in December, Andrew issued General Order No. 44, announcing a Regiment of Cavalry Volunteers,