Army Life in a Black Regiment : And Other Writings

by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (Author); Madison, R. D. (Introduction by)

• ISBN13: 9780140436211
• ISBN10: 0140436219
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

This book - originally a series of essays - was written by a Union colonel from New England, in charge of black troops training off the coast of the Carolinas. It offers a refreshing portrait of life in the Union Army as the narrator captures the raw humor that develops among the men in combat.

Author Biography

R. D. Madison is a professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He has edited several volumes of military and naval history, including William Bligh and Edward Christian’s The Bounty Mutiny for Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(16)
R. D. Madison
Suggestions for Further Reading	xxiii	(2)
A Note on the Texts	xxv	(2)
Army Life in a Black Regiment	xxvii
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY	1	(4)
CHAPTER II. CAMP DIARY	5	(43)
CHAPTER III. UP THE ST. MARY'S	48	(26)
CHAPTER IV. UP THE ST. JOHN'S	74	(25)
CHAPTER V. OUT ON PICKET	99	(17)
CHAPTER VI. A NIGHT IN THE WATER	116	(11)
CHAPTER VII. UP THE EDISTO	127	(13)
CHAPTER VIII. THE BABY OF THE REGIMENT	140	(9)
CHAPTER IX. NEGRO SPIRITUALS	149	(25)
CHAPTER X. LIFE AT CAMP SHAW	174	(8)
CHAPTER XI. FLORIDA AGAIN?	182	(7)
CHAPTER XII. THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIER	189	(15)
CHAPTER XIII. CONCLUSION	204	(3)
APPENDIX	207	(24)
A. ROSTER OF OFFICERS	207	(4)
B. THE FIRST BLACK SOLDIERS	211	(5)
C. GENERAL SAXTON'S INSTRUCTIONS	216	(1)
D. THE STRUGGLE FOR PAY	217	(11)
E. FAREWELL ADDRESS	228	(3)
RELATED READINGS	231	(96)
A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859	233	(13)
Nat Turner's Insurrection	246	(24)
Letter to a Young Contributor	270	(17)
Some War Scenes Revisited	287	(15)
Emily Dickinson's Letters	302	(25)
EXPLANATORY NOTES	327