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The U.S. Army has uploaded the book in its entirety to its website. This scholarly work explores the USCT as a whole during this period.

A collage of 64 members of the 1868 South Carolina legislature. They are dubbed "Radical" and attention is brought to their earnings and literacy in order to disparage this new group of congressmen. Prince Rivers is far left, four rows down. It is…

In this clipping from the abolitionist newspaper, Prince Rivers is quoted and Robert and Hannah Smalls are mentioned.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper devoted several pages to the 1st SCV in this issue. The captions for the three images are as follows:
1. Company A of the 1st South Carolinian (Colored) Union Volunteers Taking the Oath of Allegiance to the U.S.…

One of four panels in an issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Depicts Camp Saxton, the headquarters of the 1st SCV on Port Royal Island.

Image depicts the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation under the "Emancipation Oak" at Fort Saxton on January 1, 1863. After this, the members of the 1st SCV were finally, legally, freed. In the crowd are members of the USCT, with 1st SCV color…

Charlotte Forten, later Grimké, taught freedpeople at the Penn School on St. Helena's Island. She wrote of her experience for the Atlantic Monthly during the war.

Lieutenant Colonel Trowbridge gave this address on October 11, 1904. It details the 33rd USCT's actions in the immediate aftermath of the war.

Seth Rogers describes his time as a surgeon for the 1st SCV. His letters are transcribed and hosted by Florida History Online. Click the title to access.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of the time he spent with the 1st SCV during the Civil War.