Whom We Would Never More See: History and Archeology Recover the Lives and Deaths of African American Civil War Soldiers on Folly Island, South Carolina

Four days before Christmas 1863, Union Private William Herbert died of typhoid and was buried on Folly Island, South Carolina, far from his hometown of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was a member of the 55th Massachusetts Regiment, a volunteer regiment of African American soldiers from across the United States and beyond. This booklet follows the story of Private Herbert in the final year of his life as a soldier on Folly Beach, South Carolina. It is also the story of his rediscovery by archaeologists, and his eventual reburial in Beaufort National Cemetery along with at least seventeen others in his brigade.