Army Life in a Black Regiment
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About This Book
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas.Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, Army Life in a Black Regiment ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid descript...
Chapters (23)
- ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT
- (1823-1911)
- Reprinted, 1900, by Riverside Press
- Chapter 1. Introductory
- Chapter 2. Camp Diary
- Chapter 3. Up the St. Mary's
- Chapter 4. Up the St. John's
- Chapter 5. Out on Picket
- Chapter 6. A Night in the Water
- Chapter 7. Up the Edisto
- Chapter 8. The Baby of the Regiment
- Chapter 9. Negro Spirituals
- Chapter 10 Life at Camp Shaw
- Chapter 11. Florida Again?
- Chapter 12. The Negro as a Soldier
- Chapter 13. Conclusion
- APPENDIX
- Appendix A
- Roster of Officers
- Appendix B The First Black Soldiers
- Appendix C General Saxton's Instructions
- Appendix D The Struggle for Pay
- Appendix E Farewell Address of Lt. Col. Trowbridge
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