Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: March 1863
Mustered-out date and place: May 1863 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States [Pigeon Point]
Portrait of Mildred Evelyn Simmons Adamson.
Mildred was born 14 November 1930 in Charleston, South Carolina. She and her husband, Frank Adamson, lived in New York and Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Regiment: 97th United States Colored Troops
Company: B
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 10 April 1863 at New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
Mustered-in date: Not listed
Mustered-out date and place: 6 April 1866
Regiment: 77th United States Colored Troops; 10th United States Colored Troops Heavy Artillery
Company: H; B
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 1 September 1864 at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 2 February 1867 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Regiment: 33rd United States Colored Troops
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 6 March 1863 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 31 January 1866 in Morris Island, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 115th United States Colored Infantry
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 8 August 1864 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
Mustered-out date: Not listed
Veteran's death date and place: 4 March 1865 in Point of Rocks, Virginia, United States
Regiment: 1st United States Colored Troops; 33rd United States Colored Troops
Company: K
Rank: Drummer
Mustered-in date and place: 21 March 1863 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 21 January 1866 on Morris Island, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 36 United States Colored Volunteers Infantry
Company: D
Rank: Private; Corporal
Mustered-in date and place: 12 January 1864 in Norfolk City, Virginia, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 28 October 1866 in Fort Monroe, Virginia, United States of America [Brazos, Texas, United States]
Regiment: 128th United States Colored Troops
Company: F
Rank: Corporal
Mustered-in date and place: 23 March 1865
Mustered-out date and place: 10 October 1866
Regiment: 123rd United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: C
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 26 October 1854 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 25 January 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Regiment: 33rd United States Colored Troops
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 1 November 1862 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 31 January 1866
Regiment: 10th United States Colored Infantry
Company: E
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 9 February 1864
Mustered-out date and place: 24 May 1865
Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: H
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 1 March 1865
Mustered-out date and place: 28 February 1866 at Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Regiment: 21st United States Colored Troops
Company: I
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 24 October 1864
Mustered-out date and place: 25 April 1866 at Charleston, South Carolina, United States
In this interview, the 109-year-old Mrs. Ercelle Chillis of James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina shared stories about her family's history and her life. Her interview opens with the story of her birth during a horrific South Carolina hurricane. She also shared the story of how her paternal grandfather walked with his family from Alabama to Charleston in the 1870s in a bid to hire a boat that would take him and his family to Africa!
96-year-old educator and Civil Rights worker Mrs. Jennie Mae Jefferson was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
Regiment: USS New Hampshire
Company: Not listed
Rank: Landsman
Mustered-in date and place: August 1864
Mustered-out date and place: March 1865 at Port Royal, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 103rd United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 4 March 1865 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 16 July 1865 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 104th United States Colored Troops
Company: A
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 1 April 1865 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 5 February 1866 at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, South Carolina