title: Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
author:  Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
description: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of New England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas. Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, Army Life in a Black Regiment ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid description of the author's near escape from cannon fire, to sketches that conjure up the beauty and mystery of the Sea Islands.
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  Army Life in a Black Regiment
  
  
  [Chapter 1.
  Introductory](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_001.html#filepos4747)
  
  [Chapter 2. Camp
  Diary](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_001.html#filepos13683)
  
  [Chapter 3. Up the St.
  Mary's](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_001.html#filepos118777)
  
  [Chapter 4. Up the St.
  John's](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_002.html#filepos182905)
  
  [Chapter 5. Out on
  Picket](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_002.html#filepos243885)
  
  [Chapter 6. A Night in the
  Water](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_002.html#filepos284479)
  
  [Chapter 7. Up the
  Edisto](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_002.html#filepos311522)
  
  [Chapter 8. The Baby of the
  Regiment](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_002.html#filepos343529)
  
  [Chapter 9. Negro
  Spirituals](Army%20Life%20in%20a%20Black%20Regiment_split_003.html#filepos365263)
  
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