The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

LEAVES FROM AN OFFICER'S JOURNAL. RICHES. THE VENGEANCE OF DOMINIC DE GOURGUES. LINA. CHARLES LAMB'S UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS. TO WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS THE NEW SCHOOL OF BIOGRAPHY. THE LAST RALLY. FINANCES OF THE REVOLUTION. THROUGH-TICKETS TO SAN FRANCISCO: A PROPHECY. SEA-HOURS WITH A DYSPEPTIC. THE TWENTIETH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS [I wish to record, as truthfully as I may, the beginnings of a momentous experiment, which, by proving the aptitude of the freed slaves for military drill and discipline, their ardent loyalty, their courage under fire, and their self-control in success, contributed somewhat towards solving the problem of the war, and towards remoulding the destinies of two races on this continent. During a civil war events succeed each other so rapidly that these earlier incidents are long since overshadowed. The colored soldiery are now numbered no longer by hundreds, but by tens of thousands. Yet there was a period when the whole enterprise seemed the most daring of innovations, and during those months the demeanor of this particular regiment, the First South Carolina, was watched with microscopic scrutiny by friends and foes. Its officers had reason to know this, since the slightest camp-incidents sometimes came back to them, magnified and distorted, in anxious letters of inquiry from remote parts of the Union. It was no pleasant thing to live in this glare of criticism; but it guarantied the honesty of any success, while fearfully multiplying the penalties, had there been a failure. A single mutiny, a single rout, a stampede of desertions,and there perhaps might not have been, within this century, another systematic effort to arm the negro. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 24885
Author: Various
Release Date: Mar 21, 2008
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Language: English