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The complete Civil War journal and selected letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Title
The complete Civil War journal and selected letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson / edited by Christopher Looby.
Author
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Looby, Christopher
Description
xix, 393 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • "In 1870, Thomas Wentworth Higginson - the colonel of the first black regiment in the Civil War - published his account of Civil War life in Army Life in a Black Regiment. Still in print today, and based in part on Higginson's extensive war diary, the book has become a classic of Civil War literature. Now, for the first time, Higginson's journal of his war experiences is available in its entirety. Accompanied by a selection of his letters, this diary is politically and ethically stirring, vividly literary, and simultaneously evocative and descriptive. It will be recognized as one of the most important chronicles of the Civil War as well as a gripping account of one of the most radical racial experiments in American history."--Jacket.
  • "The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson has been sensitively and thoroughly annotated by Christopher Looby, who adds important contextual details and further sources to Higginson's account."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 > Diaries
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 > Correspondence
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, (1823-1911)
  • United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1864-1866)
  • American Civil War (1861-1865)
  • 1861-1865
  • Soldiers > United States > Diaries
  • Soldiers > United States > Correspondence
  • Military participation > African American
  • Race relations
  • Regimental histories
  • Soldiers
  • Amerikaanse burgeroorlog
  • United States > History > Participation, African American. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
  • United States > History > Regimental histories. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States
  • États-Unis > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Récits personnels
  • États-Unis > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Histoire des unités
  • États-Unis > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Troupes noires
  • États-Unis > Relations interethniques
Genre/Form
  • Diaries.
  • History.
  • Personal narratives.
  • Records and correspondence.
  • Correspondence.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
War journal, November 22, 1862-April 25, 1864 -- War letters, August 4, 1861-May 18, 1864.
ISBN
  • 0226333302
  • 9780226333304
LCCN
99031436
OCLC
  • ocm41400840
  • SCSB-14110085
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library