James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior Conner Robert C.
James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior Conner Robert C. The first full biography of James Montgomery, who through his actions before and during the Civil War, contributed towards the abolition of…
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James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior Conner Robert C.
The first full biography of James Montgomery, who through his actions before and during the Civil War, contributed towards the abolition of slavery.James Montgomery was a leader of the free-state movement in pre-Civil War Kansas and Missouri, associated with its direct-action military wing. Shaw, Montgomery led his African-American regiment along with Tubman and other civilians in the 1863 Combahee River raid, which freed almost 800 slaves from South Carolina plantations. He then joined the Union Army and fought through most of the war.A close associate and ally of other abolitionists including John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Colonels Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Robert G.
He then commanded a brigade in the siege of Fort Wagner, near Charleston.In 1864, still in brigade command, he fought at the Battle of Olustee in Florida, helping prevent the
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