Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida by Daniel L Schafer

Author:Daniel L Schafer [Schafer, Daniel L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780813047027
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 18. Major General Rufus Saxton, avowed abolitionist and a key supporter of recruiting former slaves as soldiers in the Union army. (Courtesy of Library of Congress.)

FIGURE 19. Dr. Seth Rogers, surgeon, 1st South Carolina Loyal Volunteers. Rogers kept a daily journal that recorded the early history of this famous regiment. (Courtesy of U.S. Army Military History Institute.)

FIGURE 20. Captain William Lee Apthorp. Born in Georgia in 1837, reared in Iowa, a Dartmouth College graduate in 1859, Apthorp became captain of Company B, 2nd South Carolina Loyal Volunteers, under Colonel James Montgomery, and was eventually promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 34th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry. For his version of life in that regiment see “Montgomery’s Raids in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina” at www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline. (Photograph courtesy of Historical Museum of Southern Florida.)

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