Colonel of the Black Regiment: The Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

xix, 346 pp. Biography of a Unitarian minister and member of the Boston Anti-Slavery Vigilance Committee who later commanded the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first freed slaves allowed to fight in the Civil War. He wrote a chronicle of the Regiment, 'Army Life in a Black Regiment,' now considered a classic. Illustrated with photographs and engravings.