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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, chapter 2 (search)
ome of them. The first to whom I spoke had been wounded in a small expedition after lumber, from which a party had just returned, and in which they had been under fire and had done very well. I said, pointing to his lame arm,-- Did you think that was more than you bargained for, my man? His answer came promptly and stoutly,-- I been a-tinking, Mas'r, dat's jess what I went for. I thought this did well enough for my very first interchange of dialogue with my recruits. November 27, 1862. Thanksgiving-Day; it is the first moment I have had for writing during these three days, which have installed me into a new mode of life so thoroughly that they seem three years. Scarcely pausing in New York or in Beaufort, there seems to have been for me but one step from the camp of a Massachusetts regiment to this, and that step over leagues of waves. It is a holiday wherever General Saxton's proclamation reaches. The chilly sunshine and the pale blue river seem like New En