Primary Sources: U.S. Civil War

The Alliance with the Negro by Charles John Biddle

Autobiography of James L. Smith

Louisiana Native Guards by James G. Hollandsworth

The Black Experience in the Civil War South by Stephen V. Ash

Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw by Robert Gould Shaw

The Diary of James T. Ayers: Civil War Recruiter by James T. Ayers

Families and freedom : a documentary history of African-American kinship in the Civil War era by Ira Berlin (Editor); Leslie S. Rowland (Editor)

Freedom's soldiers : the Black military experience in the Civil War by Ira Berlin; Joseph P. Reidy (Editor); Leslie S. Rowland

Free military school for applicants for commands of colored troops

A Grand Army of Black Men by Edwin S. Redkey; Albert Gelpi (Contribution by); Ross Posnock (Contribution by)

My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry by Frederick W. Browne

Notes on colored troops and military colonies on southern soil by Stephen B. Brague

On the altar of freedom : a black soldier's Civil War letters from the front by James Henry Gooding; Virginia M. Adams (Editor); James M. McPherson (Foreword by)

Policy of Employing Negro Troops by Henry Cousins Chambers

Practicing medicine in a black regiment : the Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts by Richard M. Reid (Editor)

Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S. C. Volunteers by Susie King Taylor

Speech of Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio on the enlistment of Negro Soldiers by George H. Pendleton

Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania on the bill to raise additional Soldiers by Thaddeus Stevens

Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent by R. J. M. Blackett

A Thrilling narrative from the lips of the sufferers of the late Detroit riot, March 6, 1863

A voice of thunder : the Civil War letters of George E. Stephens by Donald Yacovone (Editor); George Stephens (Editor)