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Additional authors

1. Afro-American Pub. Co., publisher.
2. A.H. Sicker & Company, copyright holder.

Description

1. 710 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (one col.), ports.; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative title

1. Camp-fires of the Afro-American
2. Colored man as a patriot, soldier, sailor, and hero, in the cause of free America

Subject

1. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American
2. United States > History > Spanish-American War, 1898 > Participation, African American
3. United States > History, Military
4. United States > History > War of 1812 > Participation, African American
5. African Americans
6. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Participation, African American
7. Black author
8. United States > Army > African American troops
9. African American soldiers > History

Contents

1. Dedication -- Preface -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Arrival and relations in the colonies -- Colonial wars -- The Boston massacre -- Lexington and Concord ; The British retreat -- The battle of Bunker Hill -- The spirit of 'seventy-six -- Capture of British Major-General Prescott -- Burgoyne's surrender -- The midnight of the Revolution -- The battle of Monmouth -- The capture at Stony Point -- Campaigns in the south -- Close of the Revolutionary War -- Beginning of the War of 1812 -- Victories on Lakes Erie and Champlain -- North Point and Fort McHenry -- The battle of New Orleans -- War with Mexico ; The John Brown raid -- Outbreak of the Civil War -- March of the first defenders -- Mobbing of the Sixth Massachusetts -- Land and naval operations in 1861 -- Robert Smalls captures the "Planter" -- Important events of 1862 -- Fighting under the flag of freedom -- The fight at Columbia Bridge -- The increasing camp-fires of 1863 -- A battle-field sermon -- The assault upon Fort Wagner -- A Naval traitor on the Mississippi -- The Petersburg Mine and Crater -- Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign -- Prison-pens of the south -- The camp-fires of 1864 -- The Tottering Confederacy seeks the support of colored soldiers -- Closing scenes of the great Civil War -- The colored man's share of the Civil War -- The United States Colored Regulars -- The Spanish-American War -- The great naval battle in Manila Bay -- Operations in Cuba -- Destruction of Cervera's fleet -- From Porto Rico to Manila -- War with the Filipinos -- Miscellany.

Call number

1. Sc Micro R-960 [pt. C]

Note

1. "Copyrighted, 1899 by A.H. Sicker & Company, Philadelphia, Pa."--verso of title page.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Guthrie, Jas. M. (James M.)

Title

1. Camp-fires of the Afro-American, or, The colored man as a patriot, soldier, sailor, and hero, in the cause of free America : displayed in colonial struggles, in the Revoluntion, the War of 1812, and in later wars, particularly the great Civil War, 1861-5, and the Spanish American War, 1898 : concluding with an account of the war with the Filipinos, 1899 : a thrilling record of his daring and suffering for liberty's sake, in patriotic uprisings, in battles on land and sea, in prison pens, and in deeds of individual heroism / by Chaplain Jas. M. Guthrie ; profusely illustrated.

Imprint

1. Philadelphia : Afro-American Pub. Co., 514-516 Ludlow St., 1899.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 4439

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 973-G (accession no. B527324) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to Special Collections Material

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Afro-American Pub. Co., publisher.
2. A.H. Sicker & Company, copyright holder.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 00000142

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 973-G (Guthrie, J. M. Camp-fires of the Afro-American) [Print]