Army Life in a Black Regiment

Name: Army Life in a Black Regiment
Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
ISBN: 9781787365681

Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Series: African Library
Language: English
Length: 236 pages
ISBN: 9781787365681
Published: 19 January 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

Civil War
Slavery
Abolition
African American soldiers
Military history
Union army
Regiments
Reconstruction
Civil rights
Combat

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Description

In Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment, the author provides an in-depth exploration of the experience of African American soldiers during the American Civil War. Through his detailed account, Higginson offers insight into their motivations for enlisting, as well as their daily lives and struggles while on active duty. Moreover, he examines how these men embraced their shared identity and developed a distinct culture within the segregated regiment.

Author

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) was a Unitarian minister, abolitionist, and colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers — a Black Union regiment. Army Life in a Black Regiment is the field record of that command. Harvard-trained, he later corresponded with Emily Dickinson. One title here. The soldier and the man of letters share a sentence.

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