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A soldier of the First South Carolina Volunteers
An unnamed soldier of a Union regiment raised from former slaves, whose camp prayer of December 1862 Thomas Wentworth Higginson noted down.
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“Let me lib wid de musket in one hand an' de Bible in de oder,--dat if I die at de muzzle ob de musket, die in de water, die on de land, I may know I hab de bressed Jesus in my hand, an' hab…”
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, the camp diary
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no fear.
Matthew 11:28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. BSB
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An unnamed soldier of a Union regiment raised from former slaves, whose camp prayer of December 1862 Thomas Wentworth Higginson noted down.
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