Army Life in a Black Regiment

This book records some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, the first freed Black regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the Civil War. In 1862, Thomas Wentworth Higginson was commissioned as a Colonel to head the regiment. Army Life in a Black Regiment is Higginson's stirring account of his wartime experiences. Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, the narrative ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid description of the author's near escape from cannon fire to sketches that conjure up the beauty and mystery of the Sea Islands.