Carrying the Colors by W. Robert Beckman, Sharon S. MacDonald

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/87355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carrying the Colors Author: W. Robert Beckman, Sharon S. MacDonald Narrator: William Wells Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins Release date: 05-18-21 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings Genres: American Civil War Publisher's Summary: In 1862, Andrew “Andy” Jackson Smith, son of a white landowner and enslaved woman, es­caped to Union troops operating in Kentucky, made his way to the North, and volunteered for the 55th Massachusetts, one of the newly formed African American regiments. The regiment was deployed to South Carolina, and during a desperate assault on a Confederate battery, the color bearer was killed. Before the flag was lost, Smith quickly retrieved it and under heavy fire, held the colors steady while the decimated regiment withdrew.