Photograph associated with Thomas R. Hawkins

Civil War

Thomas R. Hawkins

Sergeant Major · U.S. Army

6th U.S. Colored Troops

29 September 1864 · Chapins Farm, Virginia

Public domain. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector. Source file

Branch
U.S. Army
Era
Civil War
Home state
Pennsylvania
Action
Chapins Farm, Virginia

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Rescue of regimental colors.

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