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33rd U.S. Colored Troops
American military
Also known as: 1st South Carolina Volunteers
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- In Thomas Wentworth Higginson
…South Carolina Volunteers, later the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, the first black regiment in the U.S. armed forces. After 1864 he wrote a series of popular biographies and histories and a novel. Higginson discovered and encouraged the poet Emily Dickinson.
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