Army Life in a Black Regiment
By Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Description
"One of the great source documents in human history, but one of our greatest Americans. . . . Thrilling reading." ―Tillie Olsen In 1862 military necessity enabled Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to pry from a hesitant President Lincoln the authority to enlist black troops in the Union army. The pioneer regiment of ex-slaves was to secure the beachhead tenously held at Beaufort, off the South Carolina coast. Within a year, Lincoln was to hail the enlistment of black soldiers, which he had earlier resisted as "revolutionary," as the "heaviest blow yet dealt the rebe...
ISBN(s)
0393301575, 9780393301571
