[Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson]@TWC D-Link bookArmy Life in a Black Regiment CHAPTER 8 13/22
This was Baby Number Two, and she stayed in camp several weeks, the two innocents meeting each other every day, in the placid indifference that belonged to their years; both were happy little healthy things, and it never seemed to cross their minds that there was any difference in their complexions.
As I said before, Annie was not troubled by any prejudice in regard to color, nor do I suppose that the other little maiden was. Annie enjoyed the tent-life very much; but when we were Sent out on picket soon after, she enjoyed it still more.
Our head-quarters were at a deserted plantation house, with one large parlor, a dining-room, and a few bedrooms.
Baby's father and mother had a room up stairs, with a stove whose pipe went straight out at the window.
This was quite comfortable, though half the windows were broken, and there was no glass and no glazier to mend them.
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