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| Black body servant with
Union troops in Va., 1863. |
Pvt. William Johnson, 23d
USCT, executed for rape, Jordan's Farm, Petersburg, Va., June 1864. |
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
Ellison, Mary. African-American Music and
Muskets in Civil War New Orleans. Louisiana History:
The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association,
Vol. 35, No. 3 (Summer, 1994), pp. 285-319
De la Cova, Carlina. Army Healthcare
for Sable Soldiers during the American Civil War
(2016)
BOOKS
The Black
Phalanx
VIDEOS
African
American Faces of the Civil War: An Album
African
Americans and the War: Looking Over Jordan
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
General
Thomas
Organizing Negro Regiments down the Mississippi, Crisis
(Columbus, OH), April 22, 1863, 104
Barbarities
of
Negro Soldiers, Crisis (Columbus, OH), Aug. 19,
1863, 238
Adjt.
General
Lorenzo Thomas order on contrabands, Alexandria-Gazette
(Alexandria, VA), Sept. 1, 1863, 2
The
Fiendish
Massacre by Negro Soliders Near Island Ten, Crisis
(Columbus, OH), Sept. 9, 1863, 259
A
Military Slave Trade, The Press (Philadelphia),
Jan. 1, 1864, 1
Bravery
of
Colored Troops, Elevator (San Francisco), March
18, 1870, 1
DESERTERS
A
Negro Deserter from the Wise Legion, Springfield
Republican (Springfield, MA), March 1, 1862, 5
Our
Army
Correspondence, Farmer's Cabinet (Amherst, NH)
May 15, 1862, 2
John Cook, a
Negro Deserter, Times Picayune, March 15, 1863,
4
Provost
Court, Times Picayune (New Orleans), May 15,
1863, 4
From
Port
Royal; A Negro Soldier Hung, Albany Evening Journal
(NY), July 7, 1863, 3
A
Negro Deserter Executed- Defenses of Folly Island, Evening
Star (Washington, DC), July 8, 1863, 1
From
South
Carolina, Daily National Intelligencer
(Washington DC), July 9, 1863, 2
Man Drowned,
Boston Herald, August 12, 1863, 4
Negro
Deserter
Long Island Camp, Springfield Republican (MA),
August 12, 1863, 4
Negro
Deserter
Boston, Crisis (Columbus, OH) December 9, 1863,
367
Negro
Deserter
Shot, Evening Union (Washington, DC) December 9,
1863, 3
Another
Negro
Deserter, Richmond Examiner, August 30, 1864, 1
A
Dishonest Negro Recruit, Daily National
Intelligencer, (Washington, DC) April 1, 1865, 1
EXECUTIONS
The
Execution of the Negro Soldiers at Hilton Head, Charleston
Courier, Dec. 7, 1865, 1
54th MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER REGIMENT
Brief History
of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment
The
Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
The Brave
Col. Shaw (Boston Herald, May 30, 1897)
Surgeon
Charles
E. Briggs, 54th Mass. Regiment
Pvt.
James
Riley, 54th Nass. Regiment
Dr.
John
T. Luck just exchanged (Boston Evening Transcript,
Nov. 30, 1863, 2)
Dr. John
T. Luck said no negro regiment officer is prisoner in S.C.
(Boston Herald, Dec. 2, 1863)
Surgeon
John
T. Luck states the wounded prisoners of the 54th Mass. were
well treated (Springfield Republican, Nov. 8,
1865)
Record
of
the Service of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry (1868)
Massachusetts
Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines in the Civil War, Vol. 4 (1932)
Boston's Colored
Veterans (New York Times, July 19, 1883)
Edgar Dinsmore Letters (Journal
of
Negro History, July 1940)
Emilio, Luis F. History of the
Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
1863-1865 (1891)
Greene, Robert Ewell. Swamp
Angels:
A Biographical Study of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
(1990)
Jorgensen, C. Peter. The Making
of "Glory" (Civil War Times, Nov/Dec. 1989)
Urwin, Gregory J. W. I Want You
To Prove Yourselves Men (Civil War Times, Nov/Dec.
1989)
Westwood, Howard C. Captive
Black Union Soldiers in Charleston--What to Do? (Civil
War History, 1982)
DOUGLASS, LEWIS HENRY (Oct. 9, 1840-Sept. 19,
1908)
Lewis H.
Douglass biography
Recommendation
for
discharge, Feb. 23, 1864
SWAILS, STEPHEN ATKINS (Feb. 23, 1832-May 17,
1900)
Stephen
Swails 1860 NY census
Wife Sarah
Thompson 1860 census
Stephen
Swails 1870 SC census
Stephen
Swails 1900 death certificate, Kingstree, SC
55th MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER REGIMENT
Record of the
Service of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry (1868)
MEDICAL RECORDS
54th Massachusetts
Jackson,
Pvt.
Thomas, Co. A
Jefferson,
Pvt.
Benjamin, Co. C; H. William Jennings, Co. C; Elias S. Rouse.
Co. K
33rd USCT
Butler,
Pvt.
Thomas, Co. C
Haygood,
Pvt.
Abraham, Co. B
Patterson,
Pvt. Stephen, Co. A
Powell,
Pvt.
Robert, Co. E
Lee,
Peter, Co. F and Samuel Johnson, Co. C
Bland,
George, Co. K, Joseph Black, Co. D, Charles Brinzard, Co. A,
Davic Bram, Co. C
Carrian,
March, Co. D, James Cashman, Co. A, Chance Chaplin, Co. E
