Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Aug. 31, 2014)
"Army Life in a Black Regiment" is the Civil War memoir of written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an abolitionist who was commissioned as a colonel to head the first regiment of emancipated slaves in 1862. Higgonson book is a stirring history of the first regiment of emancipated slaves formed to fight in the Civil War. It is also about Black soldiers in a white war, white officers in a Black regiment, self-discovery, rivers, and hope. Much of the imagery and characterization in the movie GLORY seems to have been adapted from "Army Life in a Black Regiment," which is a first-hand narrative of war by an idealist sorely tested by politics and physical hardship. Higginson's writing of the book is in part his attempt to deal with what today we would call Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder, and it is no wonder that the tone sometimes reminds the reader of Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River." An interesting read for Civil War buffs and those interested in the role of black soldiers during Civil War days.
- ISBN
- 150230046X / 9781502300461
- Pages
- 186
- Weight
- 12.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.4 in.
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