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- Stephen_Atkins_Swails abstract "Stephen Atkins Swails (23 February 1832 – 17 May 1900) was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although originally enlisting as a private, he was the first African-American soldier promoted to commissioned rank, as a line officer, in that conflict, as evidenced by the U.S. War Department's initial refusal of that promotion due to his \"African descent.\"Swails was a free black who was so light in coloring that he was often mistaken as white. He was single and employed mostly as a waiter in Cooperstown, New York at the start of the Civil War, and although he fathered several children by Sarah Thompson, he never married her. His enlistment papers state he was employed as a boatman in Elmira, New York when he joined the army. In 1863, he answered Frederick Douglass' call to arms and joined the 54th Massachusetts when it began forming, and served in that regiment, eventually being commissioned as an officer, until the end of the war. After the war, he settled in South Carolina and later Washington, D.C., becoming a lawyer and politician.".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battle American_Civil_War.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battle Battle_of_Boykins_Mill.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battle Battle_of_Honey_Hill.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battle Battle_of_Olustee.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battle Fort_Wagner.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails birthDate "1832-02-23".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails birthPlace Columbia,_Pennsylvania.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails birthYear "1832".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails deathDate "1900-05-17".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails deathPlace Kingstree,_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails deathYear "1900".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails restingPlace Charleston,_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails serviceEndYear "1865".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails serviceStartYear "1863".
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- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Boykins_Mill.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Honey_Hill.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Olustee.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:1832_births.
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- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:African-American_history.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:African-American_history_of_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:African_Americans_in_the_Civil_War.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mayors_of_places_in_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Lancaster_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Williamsburg_County,_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_of_American_Reconstruction.
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- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:South_Carolina_Republicans.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:South_Carolina_State_Senators.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Category:Union_Army_officers.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Charleston,_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Columbia,_Pennsylvania.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Cooperstown,_New_York.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Needles_Hallowell.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Electoral_College_(United_States).
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Elmira,_New_York.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink First_lieutenant.
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- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Wagner.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_Douglass.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Freedmens_Bureau.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink John_Albion_Andrew.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink John_G._Foster.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Kingstree,_South_Carolina.
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- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Sergeant_major.
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- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Postal_Service.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Volunteers.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink Washington,_D.C..
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLink William_Gurney.
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- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stephen A. Swails".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stephen Atkins Swails".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stephen Swails".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battles American_Civil_War.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battles Battle_of_Boykins_Mill.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battles Battle_of_Honey_Hill.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battles Battle_of_Olustee.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails battles Fort_Wagner.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails birthDate "1832-02-23".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails birthPlace Columbia,_Pennsylvania.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails caption "1".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails dateOfBirth "1832-02-23".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails dateOfDeath "1900-05-17".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails deathDate "1900-05-17".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails deathPlace Kingstree,_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails name "Stephen A. Swails".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails name "Swails, Stephen Atkins".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails placeOfBirth Columbia,_Pennsylvania.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails placeOfDeath Kingstree,_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails placeofburial Charleston,_South_Carolina.
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails placeofburialLabel "Place of burial".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails rank "35".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails serviceyears "1863".
- Stephen_Atkins_Swails shortDescription "Union Army officer".
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