Army Life in a Black Regiment
Publisher: eBooksLib
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9781412108102; 9781412164085; 9781412108119
Description: These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered, except a portion of the troops raised by Major-General Butler at New Orleans. These scarcely belonged to the same class, however, being recruited from the free colored population of that city, a comparatively self-reliant and educated race.