, do capture the important themes: how blacks were long denied the fight against the South, how their courage was ever in question and how, after serving their country honorably, full citizenship in the postwar nation was not their reward. And the authors, both investigative reporters with the Detroit News The authors' decision to focus on only a few months of the war hampers narrative tension, though it does illustrate the fact that soldiering is nine parts tedium for every part horror. In Uncommon Valor,' Melvin Claxton and Mark Puls follow Fleetwood and his colleagues as they buttress Northern ranks for the war's grinding late offensives. Claxton and Puls's account suffers from its paucity of primary black voices, and it's too short to be definitive.
It also earned the book's chief protagonist, Christian Fleetwood, a Baltimore resident who enlisted while slavery was still legal in Maryland, a medal of honor for his bravery. The battle hastened the end of the war and retired most of the prejudices that initially kept black troops out of combat. Epic 4D is a Michigan based company led by Founder/CEO Melvin Claxton and. Social study series)Fletcher Melvin Green, Gruffs Guide to the Secret SeaAmy Sparkes, Light Gymnastics : A Guide To Systematic Instruction In Physical. The terrible, but ultimately victorious, 1864 assault on New Market Heights, a vital outpost in the defense of Richmond, Va., forms the centerpiece of Claxton and Puls's Civil War history, which highlights the bravery and sacrifice of African-American troops. Claxton is the co-author of Uncommon Valor: A story of race, patriotism.
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