Egerton Leigh's Books

A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality—in the face of murderous violence—in the years after the Civil War.

What if you believed that "for the price of a cup of coffee you could save a child's life?" What if your life closely resmbled the life of a caged budgie bird? What if the most real part of your life were the words in books? Would you let your world shatter?

Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the gates, Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the formation and exploits of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry -- regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery.

Book's by Egerton Leigh

The Wars of Reconstruction

The Wars of Reconstruction

Marshall Hollenzer is Driving

Marshall Hollenzer is Driving

Thunder at the Gates

Thunder at the Gates

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