CIVIL WAR IN THE CAROLINA - GEORGIA - FLORIDA LOWCOUNTRY

LEST WE FORGET

Bennie J. McRae, Jr.
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NOTE: This page will be continually updated. Please return periodically to view and read additional data. - Bennie J. McRae, Jr., Editor and Researcher

April 13, 1862 Maj. Gen. David Hunter, U. S. Army, orders emancipation of slaves  at Fort Pulaski and on Cockspur Island, Ga.
April 29, 1862 Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton, U. S. Army, assigned to special duty in the Department of the South.(+)
May 9, 1862 Maj. Gen. David Hunter, U.S. Army, orders the emancipation of slaves in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, and authorizes the arming of all able-bodied negroes in those States.
May 13, 1862 Abduction of the steamer Planter from Charleston, S.C.
Sept. 1, 1862 Maj. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel, U.S. Army, assigned to command of the Department of the South.
Sept.  3, 1862 The Tenth Army Corps constituted under command of Maj. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel, U.S. Army.
Sept.  5, 1862 Brig. Gen. John M. Brannan, U.S. Army, temporarily in command of the Department of the South.
Sept. 17, 1862 Maj. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel, U.S. Army, assumes command of the Department of the South.
Sept. 27, 1862 Brig. Gen. John M. Brannan, U.S. Army, assumes temporary command of the Department of the South, vice Mitchel, deceased.

 

THE FIRST BLACK SOLDIERS
May 7, 1862

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