Regiment: 21st United States Colored Troops
Company: H
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 3 September 1864 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 23 September 1865 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 128th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: H
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 13 March 1865
Mustered-out date and place: 10 October 1866 in Morris Island, South Carolina, United States
Tom DeWolf discusses the history of the DeWolf family, a prominent family from colonial New England that participated in the transatlantic slave trade in many facets.
Regiment: 128th United States Colored Troops
Company: G
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 27 March 1865 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 10 October 1866 at Morris Island, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops
Company: C; G
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date: 20 March 1863 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 28 February1866 at Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Regiment: 81st United States Colored Troops Infantry; 39th United States Colored Troops Infantry; 25th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: B; C; A
Rank: Sergeant; Private
Mustered-in date and place: 24 August 1863 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; 5 October 1866; 5 October 1869
Mustered-out date: September 1866; 5 October 1869; 5 October 1874
Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: F
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 2 June 1863
Mustered-out date and place: 28 February 1866
Tonya Singer discusses learning about her enslaving ancestors in her 40s and her outrage at not learning before that age. She also reflects on learning about the history of slavery in New England.
Regiment: 24th United States Colored Troops
Company: A
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 15 May 1876
Mustered-out date and place: 12 May 1881 at Fort Supply, United States
Both articles are about the death of William du Henri Brown, who founded the Springfield Terrace School, later called the Pearl L. Smith Elementary School.
Portrait of Vilmont and Julianna Schexnayder from Patterson, Saint Mary's Parish, Lousiana, United States. Photograph taken by unknown photographer in the 1800s.
Julianne and her parents, Paul and Harriet, were enslaved by the brothers Octave and Numa Cornay of the Calumet Plantation. The plantation was in Patterson, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana and was a large sugar mill. During the Civil War, Julianne went with the Cornays to Lafayette, Louisiana, where she had one son by a man she was not married to but had a "shacking" relationship to breed children. After the Civil war, Julianne returned to Patterson, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana and was a laundress. She met and married Vilmont Schexnayder on 4 January 1883 in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, United States. Julianne had at least 15 children, 14 of them with Vilmont Schexnayder.