Source

A Black Union Soldier Comments on Treatment by Southerners

Classification
primary
Type
book
Date
1870
Citation
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1870
Rights
public-domain

One soldier's first-person reflection, recorded by his white commanding officer Thomas Wentworth Higginson, on how Black troops of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers earned respect from white soldiers during the war -- and his hope that this changed standing could not be undone by postwar politics.

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