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FREEDOM CALLING - Book Highlights
African-American Soldiers in the Civil War

After May 1863 many of the freed men were allowed to enlist in the Union Army and a great many of them served in the army's management of the camps.
Black leaders like Frederick Douglass encouraged African-American men to become soldiers as it would ensure their eventual US citizenship. The US government formed the Bureau of Colored Troops to organize the increasing numbers of black volunteer soldiers.

Approximately one hundred and ninety thousand black men volunteered during the course of the Civil War, and more than eighty of them became commissioned officers. Besides being soldiers many served as army carpenters, cooks, guards and chaplains. Black women also volunteered. Women were not allowed to join the army or navy, but could serve as nurses, scouts and spies.

Because of racial prejudice, even among Union soldiers, black men were not used as often in combat. But the soldiers who saw combat fought bravely and tenaciously. Sixteen had been awarded to the Medal of Honor for valor, like this soldier pictured. He is Andrew Jackson Smith, recipient of the MEDAL OF HONOR.

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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea

A good part of the this saga takes place in the state of Virginia, circa 1864. Virginia offers a wide array of landscape and topography. It is a very beautiful state! This clear, flowing river and beautiful cascading waterfall is just one example!

Celia traveling through Virginia, c1864, Civil War raging. Avoiding soldiers & gunfire, she seeks solace in the wilderness & hides for a day in a small cave beside this waterfall.

Celia's journey changes her, and she slowly transforms from the child-like girl into a young woman as she searches for truth, - her own truth.

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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea

FREEDOM CALLING by Dana Vacca
A Storm at Sea, Sailing Ship, Steam Locomotive, Great Dismal Swamp, Battlefield - Can Celia endure ????

Celia - "I never considered myself brave, strong, or even especially very clever, but I've made it through much of my journey... because of intuition, serendipity, or maybe the hand of God? I like to think it is the latter."

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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea

In the Spirit of Halloween!

CIVIL WAR GHOSTS? Real Photos or FRAUD? Spooky!

Civil War-era photographer, Walter Mumler claimed the spirits of Civil War dead could be seen in his photographs of family members, like this photo (click on link below), taken of Mary Todd Lincoln with the "ghost" of husband, Abe, behind her.

Mrs. Lincoln was a faithful client of Mumler's. She had lost 3 of her 4 children AND her husband. In Mumler's "photographs" of her, one of her deceased loved ones always showed up,... lovingly beside or behind her.

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ABOARD THE SHIP - CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS
Book Excerpts
"The captain went into his cabin to the nook lined with rolls of nautical charts. Bent over the large map spread out on the map table, he traced our plotted route and pointed to our present location...."

Check out this typical New England ship interior
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It is a typical interior of a New England barque. The design and furnishings of Freedom Calling's whale ship, the LADY GREY, would have been very much like this.

The captain's cabin was located in the aft-most section of the ship. A bank of large, paned windows lined the stern-side gallery that, by day, bathed the cabin in rays of bright, sunny light and silvery moonlight by night.

How amazing it would be,... to be seated at the chart table with the beautiful panorama of azure blue sky and cobalt sea receding behind you!

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With Washington, DC, the White House and President Lincoln just across the Potomac from the Confederate Army, the Federals had to be ever vigilant and the approach to the capitol was well-defended.

Here, in this original photograph, a gun crew of Union soldiers from the 4th New York Heavy Artillery load a 24-pounder M.1845 Seacoast Gun at Fort Corcoran in Alexandria, Va. The cannoneer on the left holds a hollow explosive-shell. On the ground to the right are a grapeshot and canister-shell. (Library of Congress)

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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea