Army Life in a Black Regiment (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

iv, 296 pp. 1982 reissue of 1870 original. Navy blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. "Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of New England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas."