The Fifty Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry volume 2
The Fifty Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry volume 2
Burt G Burt Green Wilder
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Both regiments went into the field under the threat of the Confederate Congress to kill or enslave Negro soldiers, if captured, and to put their officers to death. Both regiments enlisted with the assurance that in all respects they were to be treated as were the white troops. When, later, through administrative misunderstanding or pusillanimity, they w r ere offered the pay of laborers, they refused to accept it and served for more than a year without a dollar; meantine many had been killed in... battle or died of disease, and the families of some were in want. At Honey Hill, November 30, 1864, after several other regiments had been repulsed, a battalion of the 55th charged the Confederate works, losing in a few moments, killed and wounded, about half the officers and one-third the enlisted men engaged. At Rivers' Causeway, July 2, 1864, after the repulse of two other regiments by unexpected artillery, the 55th enlisted men, without orders, charged and captured • At Honey Hill, while leading the last charge, he was thrice wounded, his horse was killed and fell upon him, and he was saved with difficulty.
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