Whom We Would Never More See: History and archaeology recover the lives and deaths of African American Civil War soldiers on Folly Island, South Carolina

Steven D. Smith

Whom We Would Never More See: History and archaeology recover the lives and deaths of African American Civil War soldiers on Folly Island, South Carolina

Year: 1993

Summary

Four days before the Christmas of 1863, Private William Herbert of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry died of typhoid and was buried on Folly Island, South Carolina, 1,070 miles from his snow-covered home in Nova Scotia. This is the story of his final year of life as a soldier, his rediscovery by archaeologists, and his eventual reburial with at least seventeen fellow soldiers in Beaufort National Cemetery.

Cite this Record

Whom We Would Never More See: History and archaeology recover the lives and deaths of African American Civil War soldiers on Folly Island, South Carolina. Steven D. Smith. Topics in African American History ,3. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. 1993 ( tDAR id: 49468)