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The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword
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In the predawn darkness of September 29, 1864, black Union soldiers attacked a heavily fortified position on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond.
In a few hours of desperate fighting, these African-American soldiers struck a blow against Robert E. Lee's vaunted
and proved to detractors that they could fight for freedom and citizenship for themselves and their enslaved brethren. For fourteen of the black soldiers who stormed
that day, their bravery would be awarded with the nation's highest honor:
.
With vivid firsthand accounts and meticulous tactical detail, James S. Price brings the
into brilliant focus with maps by master cartographer Steven Stanley.