Army Life in a Black Regiment: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Army Life in a Black Regiment, credited to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Army Life in a Black Regiment, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Read by FNH. These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered, except a portion of the troops raised by Major-General Butler at New Orleans. These scarcely belonged to the same class, however, being recruited from the free colored population of that city, a comparatively self-reliant and educated race. (From the text)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Army Life in a Black Regiment
• Author credits: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 8:39:54

Catalogue topics

• higginson
• army life
• military
• civil war
• african americans

Track guide

1. 01 Introductory — 9:06
2. 02 Camp Diary — 1:40:11
3. 03 Up the St Marys — 1:00:40
4. 04 Up the St Johns — 57:41
5. 05 Out on Picket — 39:14
6. 06 A Night in the Water — 26:25
7. 07 Up the Edisto — 31:19
8. 08 The Baby of the Regiment — 20:28
9. 09 Negro Spirituals — 40:17
10. 10 Life at Camp Shaw — 19:01
11. 11 Florida, again! — 15:32
12. 12 The Negro as a Soldier — 36:41
13. 13 Conclusion — 6:37
14. 14 Appendix — 56:52

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