Message from jevink

[Anonymous]

The Chinese Soldiers who fought in the Civil War, by Stuart Heaver, is one of my favorite articles. I already created a lesson, that I will use when teaching the Civil War unit next semester. I still can't believe that I had never heard about this in college or any of my reading on the Civil War. As I was reading it a second time, I made a connection with another race that doesn't get much credit for their role in the Civil War, the African Americans, yes we talked about the 54th Massachusetts regiment and their sacrifice. yet, that's not enough. They fought as hard as any white soldier to preserve the Union, and end slavery in our country, and they just get a paragraph or two in the 8th grade U.S. history textbook.