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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 3 1 Browse Search
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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Appendix. (search)
trial, gallows had been erected in the jail-yard, and, as we understood, were to be used for hanging all our colored boys. Sergt. Robert Johnson and Private Edward S. Logan, of Company F, Fifty-fifth Mass. Infantry, were captured at Botany Bay Island, S. C., on Nov. 12, 1863, and narrowly escaping being killed when first made prisoners, were taken to Charleston Jail to join the Fifty-fourth men. Johnson died a prisoner; but Logan lived to be released. The following statement, most interestied a prisoner in Feb. 1865, at Florence, S. C. Of the circumstances regarding his capture nothing has been found. It is a singular fact that the date of Grover's capture is the same as that of Johnson and Logan, of the Fifty-fifth; and Botany Bay Island, where the latter were captured, forms one shore of the North Edisto, where the former is reported to have been made prisoner. Although the regiment was aware that many of the men were alive as prisoners, from reports of the enemy, the s