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Army Life in a Black Regiment
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It must be remembered that, after the first capture of Port Royal, the outlying plantations along the whole Southern coast were abandoned, and the slaves withdrawn into the interior. It was necessary to ascend some river for thirty miles in order to reach the black population at all. This ascent could only be made by night, as it was a slow proc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393301571
ISBN-10: 0393301575
Publication Date: 5/1984
Pages: 287
Edition: Reissue
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I read this book in A History class in college. It is the diary of Thomas Wentworth Higginson commander of the 1st Regiment in South Carolina. He was an intellectual and he commanded a thousand newly freed slaves.


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