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Now Or Never!:Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War To End Slavery
[Hardback - 2017]
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Category: Children
Sub-category: Children History
Publisher: Calkins Creek | ISBN: 9781629793405 | Pages: 144
Shipping Weight: .352 | Dimensions: 6.25 x .64 x 9.56 inches

Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book

Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary African-American Union soldiers in Civil War history—George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding.

Stephens and Gooding not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their intense training, and the dangers and tragedies on the battlefield. Like the other thousands of black soldiers in the regiment, they not only fought against the Confederacy and the inhumanity of slavery, but also against injustice in their own army. The regiment’s protest against unfair pay resulted in America’s first major civil rights victory—equal pay for African American soldiers. This fresh perspective on the Civil War includes an author’s note, timeline, bibliography, index and source notes.

Ray Anthony Shepard is the author of Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery, a Carter G. Woodson Award Honor Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book, and Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge, an ALSC and an NCSS Notable Book.

R. Gregory Christie is a recipient of the Caldecott Honor, a winner of the NAACP Image award, and a six-time Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award honoree. His recent Calkins Creek books include Answering the Cry for Freedom by Gretchen Woelfle, which won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, and Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan, which received six starred reviews and for which Christie received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor.

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