Army Life in a Black Regiment – Civil War Memoir: Enriched edition.

Name: Army Life in a Black Regiment – Civil War Memoir: Enriched edition.
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Rating: 4.4 (100 reviews)
Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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214 pages~3.6 hr readPublished by Musaicum Books

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You're interested in primary sources from the Civil War that centre Black voices and experiences, not just white commanders' perspectives.
You care about how folk music and cultural heritage were rescued and documented during America's most turbulent period.
You want to understand what life was actually like for enslaved men who became soldiers and fought for their own freedom.

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You prefer fast-paced narrative over reflective, period-specific writing and soldier's observations.
You're looking for a comprehensive military history with battle strategies and logistics rather than one man's intimate regimental account.
You need contemporary scholarship and analysis rather than a historical document that requires some contextual reading around it.

About this book

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers—the first federally authorized black regiment—provides an account of his experiences during the Civil War. His memoir documents life within this regiment during the conflict. Higginson's account is notable for his preservation of Negro spirituals. He recorded dialect verses and music that he heard sung around the regiment's campfires, contributing to the documentation of these songs.

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