Northern Baptist minister Charles Henry Corey, serving with the non-denominational United States Christian Commission, this month wraps up his work among Union soldiers stationed at Morris Island, South Carolina, while pastoring the Wentworth Baptist Church. Upon completion of his service, he briefly returns to Seabrook, New Hampshire where he marries Fannie Sanborn before returning southward.…
Today’s edition of the Port Royal-published New South Newspaper, the Union-produced publication of federally-occupied coastal South Carolina, notes an upcoming fund raiser to be held at the First African Baptist Church of Hilton Head. A special effort to raise money for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late Col. Shaw, of…
Nearly two months after the African American 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment unsuccessfully but heroically attacked the Confederate’s Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina, the rebels — following constant bombardment for weeks on end that has damaged the fort, in the face of low provisions, and due to the decomposing bodies of dead Union soldiers…