Alfred Howe Terry was a Union general in the American Civil War and the military commander of the Dakota Territory from 1866 to 1869 and again from 1872 to 1886. In 1865,Terry led Union troops to victory at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher in North Carolina.
William Burnham Woods was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States Circuit Judge and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court as well as an Ohio politician and soldier in the Civil War.
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut,was an attorney and politician,who commanded the U.S. Army of the Gulf in the American Civil War. Afterward,he continued to serve as a politician and also as a diplomat.
James Island is a town in Charleston County,South Carolina,United States. It is located in the central and southern parts of James Island. James Island is included within the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metropolitan area and the Charleston-North Charleston Urbanized Area.
Joseph Patrick Riley Jr. is an American politician who was the Mayor of Charleston,South Carolina. He was one of the longest serving mayors in the United States that is still living,having served 10 terms starting on December 15,1975,and ending on January 11,2016.
Franklin Israel Moses Jr. was a South Carolina lawyer and editor who became active as a Republican politician in the state during the Reconstruction Era. He was elected to the legislature in 1868 and as governor in 1872,serving into 1874. Enemies labelled him the 'Robber Governor'.
Robert Smalls was an American politician,publisher,businessman,and maritime pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort,South Carolina,he freed himself,his crew,and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship,CSS Planter,in Charleston harbor,on May 13,1862,and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled enclave in Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area,where it became a Union warship. His example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union Army.
The 1st North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Army was raised on September 1,1775,at Wilmington,North Carolina. In January 1776 the organization contained eight companies. Francis Nash was appointed colonel in April 1776. The regiment was present at the defense of Charleston in 1776. It transferred from the Southern Department to George Washington's main army in February 1777. At that time,Thomas Clark became colonel of the 1st Regiment. The regiment became part of General Francis Nash's North Carolina Brigade in July.
James Moore was a Continental Army general during the American Revolutionary War. Moore was born into a prominent political family in the colonial Province of North Carolina,he was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army. He spent much of his childhood and youth on his family's estates in the lower Cape Fear River area,but soon became active in the colonial military structure in North Carolina.
Robert Byington Mitchell was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and the Governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869.
The New York City Police Riot of 1857,known at the time as the Great Police Riot,was a conflict which occurred in front of New York City Hall between the recently-dissolved New York Municipal Police and the newly-formed Metropolitan Police on June 16,1857. Arising over New York City Mayor Fernando Wood's appointment of Charles Devlin over Daniel Conover for the position of city street commissioner,amid rumors that Devlin purchased the office for $50,000 from Wood,Municipal police battled Metropolitan officers attempting to arrest Mayor Wood.
John Rutledge was an American Founding Father,politician,and jurist who served as one of the original associate justices of the Supreme Court and the second chief justice of the United States. Additionally,he served as the first president of South Carolina and later as its first governor after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The 67th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Alfred Stedman Hartwell was a lawyer and American Civil War soldier,who then had another career as cabinet minister and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Gilbert Pillsbury was the Reconstruction mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,and he served one term from 1868 to 1871. He ran against William Patton and Chancellor Lesesne. Due to election challenges,he was installed as mayor only in May 1869. He was again nominated for a second term in 1871,but lost to Johann Andreas Wagener.
This article examines South Carolina's history with an emphasis on the lives,status,and contributions of African Americans. Enslaved Africans first arrived in the region in 1526,and the institution of slavery remained until the end of the Civil War in 1865. Until slavery's abolition,the free black population of South Carolina never exceeded 2%. Beginning during the Reconstruction Era,African Americans were elected to political offices in large numbers,leading to South Carolina's first majority-black government. Toward the end of the 1870s however,the Democratic Party regained power and passed laws aimed at disenfranchising African Americans,including the denial of the right to vote. Between the 1870s and 1960s,African Americans and whites lived segregated lives;people of color and whites were not allowed to attend the same schools or share public facilities. African Americans were treated as second-class citizens leading to the civil rights movement in the 1960s. In modern America,African Americans constitute 22% of the state's legislature,and in 2014,the first African American U.S. Senator since Reconstruction,Tim Scott,was elected. In 2015,the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina Statehouse after the Charleston church shooting.
Daniel Stevens was the twenty-fourth intendant (mayor) of Charleston,South Carolina,serving from 1819 to 1820.
The 40th Regiment,Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a three-year infantry regiment of the Union Army that served in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina,the Army of the Potomac,and the Department of the South during the American Civil War.
Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina,African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War,but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III,a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks,African Americans in South Carolina struggled to exercise their rights. Poll taxes,literacy tests,and intimidation kept African Americans from voting,and it was virtually impossible for someone to challenge the Democratic Party,which ran unopposed in most state elections for decades. By 1940,the voter registration provisions written into the 1895 constitution effectively limited African-American voters to 3,000—only 0.8 percent of those of voting age in the state.
From December 1876 to April 1877,both the Republican and Democratic parties in South Carolina claimed to be the legitimate government. Both parties declared that the other party had lost the election and that they controlled the governorship,the state legislature,and most state offices. Both governments debated and passed laws,created militias,collected taxes,and conducted other businesses as if the other government did not exist. Ultimately,after four months of having a disputed government,Daniel Henry Chamberlain,who claimed the governorship as a Republican,conceded to Democrat Wade Hampton III on April 11,1877 after President Rutherford Hayes withdrew federal troops from the South.
