Date of Award
Fall 2022
Degree Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
History, MA
Program
School of Arts and Humanities
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Mathew Bowman
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Joshua Goode
Terms of Use & License Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Rights Information
© 2022 Spencer G Pirnik
Subject Categories
American Studies | History
Abstract
Formed from the 9th Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent, the 47th USCI (United States Colored Infantry) was one of many African American Regiments which saw service in the U.S. Army in the Civil War and was a participant at the battles of Milken’s Bend, the Yazoo City Expedition, the Siege of Fort Blakely. With very little in the way of surviving accounts from the regiment’s Black enlistees This project seeks to examine the challenges this regiment, like so many other USCT (United States Colored Troops) regiments, faced in terms of manpower, leadership, equipment, and health, arguing that the despite these challenges the 47th’s success as a regiment during the Civil War can be attributed to a mixture of training, high morale, and no small amount of good fortune.
ISBN
9798368463865
Recommended Citation
Pirnik, Spencer Gregory. (2022). A Fearless Set of Men. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 430. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/430.
