Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Col. James Williams” in page 1 of Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865:
...utler began organizing the Louisiana Native Guards from free negroes.
General Saxton, in the Department of the South, formed the First South Carolina from contrabands in October of the same year.
Col. James Williams , in the summer of 1862,
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