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This 3 page paper analyzes Bobby L. Lovett’s article on African-American troops in Tennessee during the U.S. Civil War. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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romantic "lost cause," or because it was the last war fought on American soil. This paper analyzes an article about one aspect of that war, the contributions of African-American soldiers
who fought for the Union in Tennessee. Discussion The author is Bobby L. Lovett, and he says that his purpose in writing the article is to "demonstrate the firm and
positive contributions of black Tennesseans in obtaining freedom, their own dignity as men and women, and military victory for the United States of America."1 He finds that this idea is
fitting because hes writing in 1976, the bicentennial of the nation. He then goes on to prove his thesis by giving examples of the way blacks came to be
involved in fighting for the Union. First, the state of Tennessee "tried to exploit black labor to a great extent in its efforts to defend against approaching Yankee armies in
late 1861."2 The idea that some blacks would be willing to fight for the system that oppressed them is strange, but equally odd is white Southerners belief that "all slaves
would remain loyal to their masters..."3 Tennesseans believed that "blacks were lazy, stupid, and unfortunate beings who would perish without their masters and mistresses to look after them."4 As noted,
some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but most others immediately tried to join the Union forces. This, as Lovett explains, was
problematic at best. The commanders of the Northern forces appear to have held much the same opinions of blacks as Southerners did, and when they did allow them to join
the units, they were used in subordinate and non-combatant positions such as cooks. When African-Americans were finally allowed to fight, the units were all black, but commanded by white officers.
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