... battle. They had shown the nation that they too could fight bravely and hold their ground. Because of this, their ability to fight as soldiers would never be questioned again. NOTES 1. John Fincher, The Hardest Fight was Getting into the Fight At All (Smithsonian: 21 Oct 1989): 46. 2. Online!: History of African-Americans in the Civil War (https://www.itd.nps ... .gov/cwss/african.html, April 14, 1999). 3. Fincher. 4. Ibid. 5. Page Smith, Trail by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (USA: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1982): 308. 6. Thomas B. Allen, The Blue and the ...

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