Description: In 1864 the Philadelphia Press commissioned Thomas Morris Chester, son of an ex-slave to cover the activities of black troops on the Virginia front. The only black correspondent for a major daily during the Civil War, Chester covered the crucial final year of the war around Richmond. His dispatches constitute the most sustained and extensive first-hand account of black soldiers in existence. As the war came to a close, Chester richly described the responses of Confederate troops and civilians to encounters with black soldiers, as he joined the black troops of the 25th Army Corps as they led the victorious Union forces into Richmond. In this volume, R.J.M. Blackett provides a concise biography of Chester and reproduces in annotated form his Civil War dispatches, which are remarkable for their detail and their graphic accounts of the destruction, the excitement and the liberation of the Civil War experience.
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Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Book Title: Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent : His Dispatches from the Virginia Front
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 6in
Author: R. J. M. Blackett
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Topic: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication Year: 1991
Genre: History, Social Science
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
