1864 CIVIL WAR 1ed Whip Hoe & Sword Slaves Black Soldiers Fort Jackson Mutiny

1864 CIVIL WAR 1^ed Whip Hoe & Sword Slaves Black Soldiers Fort Jackson Mutiny

 

“If I talk a great deal of slavery, it is because I have seen a great deal of it. If I say no good thing of it, it is because I found no good thing in it.”

– George Hepworth

 

George Hepworth’s “Whip Hoe and Sword” is a rare Civil War account unlike most books from this era. Hepworth was a lieutenant in the 4^th Louisiana Native Guards (or Corps d’Afrique), a company of African American and slave soldiers. He wrote this book after witnessing the treatment of slaves and their role in the Civil War, particularly their involvement in the Mutiny at Fort Jackson in December of 1863. The black troops of the Corps d’Afrique began uprising following being garrisoned by Union troops.

 

Hepworth’s account offers not only a detailed and thorough description of the Fort Jackson Mutiny but of life in the South during the Civil War, especially pertaining to slaves and black men and women in the Confederacy. According to Nevins, this work contains

“six commentaries by a Federal chaplain on duty in Louisiana; illuminating for criticism of corruption in the Union army of occupation.”

 

Item number: #21626

Price: $499

 

HEPWORTH, George H.

 

Whip, Hoe, and Sword; or the Gulf-Department in ’63

 

Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1864. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • vi, [2], 9-298
• References: Nevins I 103; Sabin 31446; Dornbusch II 1796
• Provenance: Handwritten – John H. Lanyer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Cloth
• Size: ~7.5in X 4.75in (18.5cm x 12cm)

 

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