Mar 20, 2015 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
USCT Bounty Claims and the Information They Contain Above: Announcement of Additional Military Bounties, Charleston Daily News, 12 Nov 1866 1 USCT Bounty Claims Bounties were monetary or material incentives paid for enlisting in the military, or rewards for...
May 27, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records
Source: Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 (NARA Micropublication M1910), Reel 23 Names of 166 USCT veterans who were paid bounties from 1866-1868 ~ Please...
May 2, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records
The first military action of the United States Colored Troops in South Carolina was an expedition organized by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, commander of the 1st SC Infantry (later redesignated 33rd USCT). From January 23 to February 1, 1863, the 1st South...
