Herschel V. Cashin

Herschel Vivian Cashin was an American lawyer, state legislator, and public official in the United States. ^[1]

He was born in the state in Georgia to a white Irish father and a free "mulatto" woman. He was educated in Philadelphia by Octavius Catto at the Institute for Colored Youth, ^[2] but returned to the south to serve in the Alabama House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. ^[3] Charles Spencer Smith, his colleague in the Alabama House, described him as a friend. ^[4]

Theodore Roosevelt nominated him to be Receiver of Public Monies in Huntsville, Alabama. ^[5] He was the lead author of Under Fire With the Tenth Cavalry about "the Negro's Participation in Wars of the United States" and the Spanish-American War in particular. ^{[6] [7]}

Several of his descendants were active in civil rights advocacy including grandson John L. Cashin Jr. And great-granddaughter Sheryll Cashin.

References

1. Cashin, Sheryll (July 31, 2008). The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family. PublicAffairs. ISBN   9780786721726 – via Google Books.
2. Biddle, Daniel R. (2010). Tasting freedom : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America. Murray Dubin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 479. ISBN   978-1-59213-467-0. OCLC   650495418.
3. Backstory Archived 2008-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
4. Smith, Charles Spencer (June 15, 1895). "Glimpses of Africa, West and Southwest Coast: Containing the Author's Impressions and Observations During a Voyage of Six Thousand Miles from Sierra Leone to St. Paul de Loanda and Return, Including the Rio Del Ray and Cameroons Rivers, and the Congo River, from Its Mouth to Matadi". A.M.E. Sunday School Union – via Google Books.
5. Senate, United States Congress (June 15, 1931). "Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America". order of the Senate of the United States – via Google Books.
6. Volney Riser, R. (24 May 2010). Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908. ISBN   9780807137413.
7. Cashin, Herschel V.; Alexander, Charles; Anderson, William T.; Brown, Arthur McKimmon; Bivins, Horace Wayman (June 15, 1899). "Under Fire: With the Tenth U.S. Cavalry. Being a Brief, Comprehensive Review of the Negro's Participation in the Wars of the United States. Especially Showing the Valor and Heroism of the Negro Soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries, and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantries of the Regular Army; as Demonstrated in the Decisive Campaign Around Santiago de Cuba, 1898 ... Thrilling Episodes Interestingly Narrated by Officers and Men. Famous Indian Campaigns and Their Results. A Purely Military History of the Negro. With Introduction by Major-General Joseph Wheeler ... By Herschel V. Cashin ... Charles Alexander ... William T. Anderson ... Arthur M. Brown ... Horace W. Bivins ... Illustrated with Over One Hundred Fine Engravings from Original Photographs ..." F.T. Neely – via Google Books.