Army Life in a Black Regiment: Slavery and the American Civil War

Army Life in a Black Regiment: Slavery and the American Civil War
ISBN-10
1540782271
ISBN-13
9781540782274
Series
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2016-12-02
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Description

Army Life in a Black Regiment By Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) Originally published 1869 Slavery and the American Civil War 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." The First South Carolina, on the other hand, contained scarcely a freeman, had not one mulatto in ten, and a far smaller proportion who could read or write when enlisted. The only contemporary regiment of a similar character was the "First Kansas Colored," which began recruiting a little earlier, though it was not mustered in the usual basis of military seniority till later. [See Appendix] These were the only colored regiments recruited during the year 1862. The Second South Carolina and the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts followed early in 1863.

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