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Army Life in a Black Regiment
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered, except a portion of the troops raised by Major-General Butler at New Orleans. These scarcely belonged to the same class, however, being recruited from the free colored population of that city, a comparatively self-reliant and educated race.
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered, except a portion of the troops raised by Major-General Butler at New Orleans. These scarcely belonged to the same class, however, being recruited from the free colored population of that city, a comparatively self-reliant and educated race.
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January 15.
This morning is like May. Yesterday I saw bluebirds and a butterfly; so this whiter of a fortnight is over. I fancy there is a trifle less coughing in the camp. We hear of other stations in the Department where the mortality, chiefly from yellow fever, has been frightful. Dr. —— is rubbing his hands professionally over the fearful tales of the surgeon of a New York regiment, just from Key West, who has had two hundred cases of the fever. "I suppose he is a skilful, highly educated man," said I. "Yes," he responded with enthusiasm. "Why, he had seventy deaths!"—as if that proved his superiority past question.
January 19.
"And first, sitting proud as a lung on his throne, At the head of them all rode Sir Richard Tyrone.. . . Read More
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Although certainly well meaning, the author -- a white Harvard educated abolitionist -- comes off as paternalistic. There is not much you can really criticize because that's just how it was back then and he was certainly light-years ahead of his contemporaries; nevertheless, the number of times Higg
I wanted to read this contemporary account, written first hand by Col. Higginson, to get "eye witness" narratives of the Civil War. This book describes the 1st South Carolina Volunteers (the first federally authorized black regiment) ...their time training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Car
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Higginson is a story, aided by diary notations, of daily life in the first Negro regiments in the Union Army. The First South Carolina Regiment was formed in 1862 on the orders of Treasury Secretary Edwin M. Stanton. This regiment and I dare say all of these N
I thought this was really interesting. There were a lot of things in this book that I can use in my class. For some reason, I had thought that Higginson was with the 54th Massachusetts. It took me awhile to readjust my thinking. However, I enjoyed reading about what the black regiments were like fro
A Union colonel writes a series of essays regarding his service in a black regiment during the American Civil War. It is written from a white officer's point of view. Educational for the Civil War buff.