Colonel of the Black Regiment: The Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Book
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ISBN 10
999750707X
ISBN 13
9789997507075
Category
Union Generals
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Publication Year
1967
Publisher
Pages
346
Subject
General Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Description
This is the biography of a Unitarian minister and member of the Boston Anti-Slavery Vigilance Committee who later commanded the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first freed slaves allowed to fight in the Civil War. He wrote a chronicle of the Regiment, "Army Life in a Black Regiment," now considered a classic. Illustrated with photographs and engravings.
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