3rd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)

3rd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)

South Carolina state flag
Active June 1863 to March 14, 1864
Country United States
Allegiance United States of America
Union
Branch Infantry

The 3rd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (African Descent) was an African-American infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 3rd South Carolina Infantry was organized at Hilton Head, South Carolina and mustered into Federal service in June 1863. The unit was on post duty at Hilton Head until it was moved to Jacksonville, Florida in February 1864.[1]

There was a mutiny over pay. Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts mentioned the incident during a debate in Congress over the pay of African-American Union soldiers:

Some of the regiments first raised in South Carolina were promised and received thirteen dollars per month, but that promise has not been kept, and they are now paid only seven dollars per month. The discontent in these regiments has become so great that a mutiny broke out in the third South Carolina volunteers, and the leader of it, who was a sergeant, has been shot for mutiny, and others are under arrest and they too may be tried and shot for violation of discipline, impelled by a burning sense of our injustice.[2]

Colonel Augustus Bennett was the commanding officer. Sergeant William Walker and Samson Read were involved in the mutiny, and Walker was the man executed.

The regiment was consolidated with 4th South Carolina to form the 21st United States Colored Infantry Regiment on March 14, 1864.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ p. 1636, United States. Congress. The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debate and Proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-eight Congress. Edited by John C. Rives. Washington, DC: Congressional Globe Printing Office, 1864.
  2. ↑ p. 1805, United States. Congress. The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debate and Proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-eight Congress. Edited by John C. Rives. Washington, DC: Congressional Globe Printing Office, 1864.
  3. ↑ p. 1636, 1727, Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908.

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