Army Life in a Black Regiment: The First Black Soldiers, the First South Carolina Volunteers, the First Slave Regiment Mustered...

Army Life in a Black Regiment: The First Black Soldiers, the First South Carolina Volunteers, the First Slave Regiment Mustered...
ISBN-10
1468171658
ISBN-13
9781468171655
Series
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Category
History
Pages
226
Language
English
Published
2012-01-01
Publisher
CreateSpace
Author
Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Description

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."

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