A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO TROOPS IN THE WAR OF REBELLION 1861-1865

First published in 1888 this work is a major book-length academic history of the military history of African Americans in the American Civil War. Williams has been described as “the finest black prose stylist of his day” and this History showcases this skill. This book has been called the most important of a trio of histories of 19th-century African-American military histories written by black authors, alongside William’s Wells Brown’s The Negro in the American Rebellion and Joseph T. Wilson’s The Black Phalanx( This also republished by N&MP)