Army Life in a Black Regiment - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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In 1862 military necessity enabled Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to pry from a hesitant President Lincoln the authority to enlist black troops in the Union army. The pioneer regiment of ex-slaves was to secure the beachhead tenously held at Beaufort, off the South Carolina coast. Within a year, Lincoln was to hail the enlistment of black soldiers, which he had earlier resisted as "revolutionary," as the "heaviest blow yet dealt the rebellion." The abolition of slavery, unthinkable in 1861, was to be inevitable by 1863. The commanding officer chosen for the First South Carolina Volunteers…mehr

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In 1862 military necessity enabled Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to pry from a hesitant President Lincoln the authority to enlist black troops in the Union army. The pioneer regiment of ex-slaves was to secure the beachhead tenously held at Beaufort, off the South Carolina coast. Within a year, Lincoln was to hail the enlistment of black soldiers, which he had earlier resisted as "revolutionary," as the "heaviest blow yet dealt the rebellion." The abolition of slavery, unthinkable in 1861, was to be inevitable by 1863. The commanding officer chosen for the First South Carolina Volunteers was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a militant human rights activist, writer and lecturer, and former Unitarian minister. "In all the land," writes the historian Ray Allen Billington, they "could have found no one better for this assignment." Higginson was an excellent strategist and administrator who combined firmness with warmth and charm. Closely watched in the nation's press by both friends and foes of the undertaking, he soon shaped a first-class regiment. Army Life in a Black Regiment is Colonel Higginson's stirring account of his two years at Camp Saxton, recording the immediate effect of a decision that proved crucial to our survival as a nation and that ultimately shaped constitutional history. It is both a literary masterpiece and a unique historical document.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, sometimes known as Wentworth, was an American Unitarian preacher, novelist, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was involved in abolitionism in the United States throughout the 1840s and 1850s, siding with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six, which supported John Brown. During the Civil War, he led the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally sanctioned black regiment, from 1862 until 1864. Following the war, he wrote about his interactions with African-American soldiers and spent the remainder of his life advocating for the rights of freed people, women, and other disenfranchised groups. Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendent of Francis Higginson, a Puritan preacher and one of the first immigrants in Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born November 20, 1770 in Salem, Massachusetts; died February 20, 1834 in Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a Boston merchant and philanthropist who served as Harvard University's bursar from 1818 to 1834. His mother belonged to Boston's famous Storrow family. His grandfather, Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congress. He was a distant relative of Henry Lee Higginson, the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and a great-grandson of his grandfather. John Wentworth, Lieutenant-Governor of New Hampshire, was a third great grandfather.