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Browsing named entities in Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865. You can also browse the collection for October 7th, 1864 AD or search for October 7th, 1864 AD in all documents.

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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 11: Seige of Charleston (search)
en. E. P. Scammon on the 4th relieved General Saxton of the district command, and reviewed the Morris Island troops on the 6th. We had twenty-four officers and seven hundred and twenty-six enlisted men of the regiment present for duty at the several posts on this date. For some time the freedmen had been contributing to a Shaw monument fund to which the Fifty-fourth added liberally. The following letters relate thereto:β€” headquarters Fifty-Fourth Mass. Vols., Morris Island, S. C., Oct. 7, 1864. Brig.-Gen. R. Saxton. Dear General,β€”In behalf of the enlisted men of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, I respectfully request you to receive the enclosed sum of money to be added to the sum subscribed by the freedmen of the Department for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of Col. Robert G. Shaw and those who died with him. Thanking you for the interest you have always manifested in the cause which is so dear to us, and for the trouble you have taken
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Appendix. (search)
o excite our sympathy. In these several accounts we notice different statements regarding the number of colored prisoners in the jail, and of the number allowed to visit the yard. This may be accounted for by the necessities of the work required there, or elsewhere in and about Charleston. Only one contemporaneous statement of a colored prisoner has been found. It is a letter of Sergeant Johnson of the Fifty-fifth Mass., previously referred to, published in the Boston Liberator of Oct. 7, 1864. He says:β€” I was captured by Confederate cavalry, Nov. 12, 1863, and have been a prisoner-of-war ever since. . . . My treatment has been very humane considering the circumstances of the case. The Confederate authorities show a disposition to release all free men, and as we come under that head, we hope a movement in that direction will be soon made. About fifty of the colored troops are at the jail in Charleston. They are not confined in cells, but volunteering to work they are pe