ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I -- INTRODUCTORY -- CHAPTER II -- CAMP DIARY -- CHAPTER III -- UP THE ST. MARY'S -- CHAPTER IV -- UP THE ST. JOHN'S -- CHAPTER V -- OUT ON PICKET -- CHAPTER VI -- A NIGHT IN THE WATER -- CHAPTER VII -- UP THE EDISTO -- CHAPTER VIII -- THE BABY OF THE REGIMENT -- CHAPTER IX -- NEGRO SPIRITUALS -- CHAPTER X -- LIFE AT CAMP SHAW -- CHAPTER XI -- FLORIDA AGAIN? -- CHAPTER XII -- THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIER -- CHAPTER XIII -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- A. ROSTER OF OFFICERS -- B. THE FIRST BLACK SOLDIERS -- C. GENERAL SAXTON'S INSTRUCTIONS
D. THE STRUGGLE FOR PAY -- E. FAREWELL ADDRESS OF LT.-COL. TROWBRIDGE -- INDEX
Summary
This book - originally a series of essays - was written by a Union colonel from New England, in charge of black troops training off the coast of the Carolinas. It offers a refreshing portrait of life in the Union Army as the narrator captures the raw humor that develops among the men in combat
Notes
Includes index
Originally published: Boston, Fields, Osgood, 1870
