Trivia #1 First (9/1/2014)

[Trivia Master]

I'm pleased to announce that the September 2014 Trivia Game will have a prize for one of the players, who will be randomly selected based on all the points they earn in the game. Each point will equal one "chance", one "chance" will be randomly selected early in October.
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The prize for this game is: Desperate Engagement by Marc Leepson
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Tonight's Civil War Trivia Question Value: 10 points.
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This question will be open until Wednesday at about 9:30am EDT
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Name the first Union black regiment, famous for their scarlet trousers, to be raised and formed during the Civil War.
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Post your answers BELOW. Good Luck!
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[Copperhead-mi]

Hunter's Regiment

Edit - Upon further review, Hunter's Regiment is an acceptable answer. The 1st South Carolina was also known by that name.

Hoosier

 

[nitrofd]

1st south Carolina infantry.

 

[adisciu9]

1st South Carolina Volunteers (Note there is some commentary about a Corps de afrique being formed in Louisiana in 1862 before the 1st SC was formed but for this question will go with 1st SC).

 

[Dick Williams]

I'm pleased to announce that the September 2014 Trivia Game will have a prize for one of the players, who will be randomly selected based on all the points they earn in the game. Each point will equal one "chance", one "chance" will be randomly selected early in October.
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The prize for this game is: Desperate Engagement by Marc Leepson
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The prize was graciously offered by @John Winn !
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Tonight's Civil War Trivia Question Value: 10 points.
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This question will be open until Wednesday at about 9:30am EDT
New Questions are Posted Every Night at 9:30pm EDT
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Please do not post your answers anywhere but in this forum! This includes you FACEBOOK users!
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Name the first Union black regiment, famous for their scarlet trousers, to be raised and formed during the Civil War.
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Post your answers BELOW. Good Luck!
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If you have a Civil War book, or perhaps some other interesting Civil War product you'd like to promote by giving it away as a trivia prize, contact the Webmaster, Mike Kendra

I see no answer here. I'm assuming that the person who signed in as Dick Williams, Guest is the same as DickWilliams whose post appears immediately below.

 

[DickWilliams]

1st South Carolina Volunteers (Union)

 

[GELongstreet]

1st (Union) South Carolina Volunteers?

 

[truthckr]

1st Regt S.C. Volunteers

 

[chellers]

Thanks, John Winn, for your donation.

1st South Carolina

http://www.ma150.org/day-by-day/186...leads-1st-south-carolina-raid-st-mary's-river

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

According to http://civilwargazette.wordpress.co...lack-regiment-was-not-the-54th-massachusetts/ "The first Union black regiment to be raised and formed was the 1st South Carolina Infantry."

 

[C.S.M 1861]

The first Union black regiment to be raised and formed was the 1st South Carolina Infantry. They wore unpopular red trousers.

http://momentdinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/01/us-civil-war-by-don-troiani.html

 

[BrrrBRRRR]

1st SC Volunteers(USCT)

 

[ole]

54th Mass.

 

[Karlos63]

1st South Carolina Volunteers

 

[FarawayFriend]

"The first Union black regiment to be raised and formed was the 1st South Carolina Infantry."
http://civilwargazette.wordpress.co...lack-regiment-was-not-the-54th-massachusetts/

Their appearance is described in the book "Army life in a black regiment" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson:

"These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered, except a portion of the troops raised by Major-General Butler at New Orleans. These scarcely belonged to the same class, however, being recruited from the free colored population of that city, a comparatively self-reliant and educated race. "The darkest of them," said General Butler, "were about the complexion of the late Mr. Webster."
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They were unarmed, and all looked as thoroughly black as the most faithful philanthropist could desire; there did not seem to be so much as a mulatto among them. Their coloring suited me, all but the legs, which were clad in a lively scarlet, as intolerable to my eyes as if I had been a turkey."
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6764/6764-h/6764-h.htm

Here is a Don Troiani painting showing them in their scarlet trousers:

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From: http://reflectionsgallerytn.com/ima...i Limited Edition Civil War actual prints.htm

 

[TinCan]

1st South Carolina Infantry CT

 

[yankee hoorah]

1st SC volunteers ( African descent )

 

[Lnwlf]

First Kansas Volunteer Infantry (Colored)

 

[Littlestown]

First South Carolina Volunteers

 

[blwhite]

1st Louisiana Native Guard