Army Life in a Black Regiment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517268169)

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. "The darkest of them," said General Butler, "were about the complexion of the late Mr. Webster."

Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
ISBN-10: 1517268168
ISBN-13: 9781517268169
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2015
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d