First Black Soldiers in Combat in Georgia

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Jacqueline Jones, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (New York: Knopf, 2008).
Clarence L. Mohr, “Before Sherman: Georgia Blacks and the Union War Effort, 1861-1864,” Journal of Southern History 45 (August 1979): 331-52.
Clarence L. Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (1986; reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001).
Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin, eds., Sherman’s Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999).
Noah Andre Trudeau, Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998).
“Black Troops in Civil War Georgia.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-783
African-American Soldiers in Combat. Historical Marker: http://georgiahistory.com/markers/4474