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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.

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.

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

One of the few pictures of the 1st SCV in Beaufort, likely at Camp Saxton. Photographer unknown.

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.

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…

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.

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