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Port Royal Island - 1. Camp Saxton (Smith's plantation) - the new headquarters of the 1st S.C. Vol. (Colored), Col. Higginson
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.
The South Carolina Loyal Colored Regiment in Action
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.…
1. Company A of the 1st South Carolinian (Colored) Union Volunteers Taking the Oath of Allegiance to the U.S.…
The Freed Blacks of South Carolina: Letter from Mr. J.M. McKim to Stephen Colwell, Esq. Chairman of the Port Royal Relief Committee
In this clipping from the abolitionist newspaper, Prince Rivers is quoted and Robert and Hannah Smalls are mentioned.
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature
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…