Alicia Thomas-Woolf asked Erin Lindsay McCabe:

Thanks for answering my previous question! Is there enough material for you to write another novel in which you address the issue of slavery from the perspective of black men and women who either signed up or were drafted?

Erin Lindsay McCabe According to the book They Fought Like Demons, there is only one documented African American woman who served in a Colored Union regiment disguised as a man, and the information about her is very scant. The real Rosetta does briefly mention "contraband" (slaves who escaped to the North were initially considered spoils of war) and also black men being drafted along with white men, but that's it. Slavery just didn't seem to be a motivating factor for the real Rosetta to join the Army (though it certainly was a reason other women enlisted). For this reason, it really wasn't a focus of my research, which means I don't know how much material is out there about African Americans who enlisted. For now, I don't feel a strong pull to write another Civil War novel-- I need a break from battle scenes-- but certainly if a character decided to speak to me, I would tell her story!

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