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

These records, compiled by the Adjutant General's Office, help us trace the movements of the 1st South Carolina, and why they moved.

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

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.

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…

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.

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.…

In this report of the Pennsylvania Relief Association, a report comes in from Beaufort in which there are several speeches recorded.

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.

The only account of a Civil War nurse that was written by a Black woman, Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences provide invaluable knowledge of the 1st SCV, its soldiers, officers, and movements.