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Army Life in a Black Regiment: And Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

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Title: Army Life in a Black Regiment: And Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, R. D. Madison
ISBN: 0-14-043621-9
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $14.00
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Rating: 4
Summary: Best non-fiction work to come out of the Civil War
Comment: Several years ago I urged John Seelye to edit this work for Penguin. A couple of years after that, he asked me to do it instead, and I did. This is a remarkable book about a literate Yankee (Higginson "discovered" the poet Emily Dickinson) who "discovers" the South. It's also "about" Black soldiers in a white war, white officers in a Black regiment, self-discovery, rivers, and hope. Much of the imagery and characterization in the movie GLORY seems to have been lifted from this book: it is, after all, a first-hand narrative of war by an idealist sorely tested by politics and physical hardship. Higginson's writing of the book is in part his attempt to deal with what today we would call Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder, and it is no wonder that the tone sometimes reminds the reader of Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River." Because the teller of this story emerges as an interesting person per se, this edition includes some of his other essays, ranging from his fascination with slave rebellion to his appreciation for poetry.

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