Army Life in a Black Regiment: The Story of the First South Carolina Volunteers

ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT is an authoritative account of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the Civil War. The First South Carolina Volunteers was composed of escaped slaves from South Carolina and Florida and commanded by white officers, including Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who wrote their history and recorded their beliefs and customs, including use of the Gullah language.

This edition includes a...