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S.W. Franklin, Sergeant, and Garland H. White, Agent, who
primarily and actively promoted the raising of the recruits in
this city. We append below a list of their names:
This article was taken from the Sandusky Daily Commercial Register - Page 3 -- June 6, 1863
The recruiting among our colored people, which had been going on for several days, concluded in the departure yesterday
morning of 26. The work was most completely successful and does
credit, not more to the colored people than our white citizens
who interested themselves in promoting the work. Some $5680
and more, in cash, was raised for the volunteers beside various
contributions in provisions, etc. The recruits left on the C&T
train yesterday morning, in the best of spirits, and all of them
apparently determined to strike just as heavy blows at the Jeff
Davis dynasty as though they wore white skins. We are confident
no man who wants the rebellion put down will care if a black man's
bullet or bayonet help in the work. Some two or three hundred assembled at the depot to witness the departure of the recruits, and
ere this they are well on their way to Boston, and not long hence
will be in Dixie.
James Cole Harry Johnson Harrison Griffin Robert B. Taylor William Vixen Harrison Washington William Harris Daniel F. Phillips Thomas Roberson Basil Brown David Gray Morris Darnell Westley Reil Ferry Scott William Davis Elijah Brown George Williams Nicolas Laid James Seuvers James M. Wallace Stephen Taylor Francis Gardner William Taylor William Roberson James French Charles A. Evans