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    Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery
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    Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery

    By Ray Anthony Shepard

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    Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history—George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their intense training, and the dangers and tragedies on the battlefield. Like the other thousands of black soldiers in the regiment, they not only fought against the Confederacy and the inhumanity of slavery, but also against injustice in their own army. The regiment’s protest against unfair pay resulted in America’s first major civil rights victory—equal pay for African American soldiers. This fresh perspective on the Civil War includes an author’s note, timeline, bibliography, index and source notes.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCalkins Creek
    Release dateOct 10, 2017
    ISBN9781629799162
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    Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery
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    Ray Anthony Shepard

    Ray Anthony Shepard is a former teacher and retired editor-in-chief of a major education publishing company. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Education and the Harvard Graduate School Education where he received a Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. His books for children include Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery and Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge.

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      nonfiction (civil war history representing unsung heroes).
      Yes, more like this please.