104 USCI

Letters from Black Soldiers and Sailors

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Black Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Letters
Click on the names below to read letters written by Black soldiers in the United States Colored Troops and Black sailors in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War

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Private William C. Newark, 20 USCI

“Spartan,” a soldier from the 27th USCI

Capt. O.S.B. Wall, 104 USCI

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Black Civil War soldiers and veterans.

A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army

Grand Army of Black Men

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In the News: Capt. O. S. B. Wall, 104th USCI, an African American Commissioned Officer Writes to His Hometown Newspaper

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Capt. O.S.B. Wall, 104th U.S. Colored Troops
From Joseph T. Wilson’s The Black Phalanx: African American Soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812 & the Civil War

The Lorain County News, Oberlin, Ohio
July 19, 1865

Letter from Capt. O.S.B. Wall
PORT ROYAL, S.C.,
June 24th, 1865.

EDITOR OF THE NEWS, OBERLIN, O.:

I have thought for some time that it might not be amiss to drop you a line, with reference to myself since I arrived in this department, and to say something of other matters that may be of interest to a few of your many patrons.

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