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Albert G Walls (abt. 1834 - 1863)

Private Albert G Walls
Born about in United Statesmap
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Died at about age 29 in Sol Legare Island, Charleston, South Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

US Black Heritage Project
Albert Walls is a part of US Black heritage.

Albert G. Walls was born about 1834. He was the child of Rachel Hall and William Walls. He served with the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.

Education

In 1850, he is attending school, probably in or near Lower Oxford, Pennsylvania.

Occupations

  • 1863: Farmer

Residences

  • 1863: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (military enlistment)
  • 1850: Lower Oxford, Pennsylvania with his parents, siblings, and Walls grandfather

Military Service and Death

Private Albert Walls served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Mar 14, 1863
Mustered out: July 16, 1863
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Co. B 54th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry

During the Civil War he served as a Private in Company B of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first regiment in the United States made up entirely of enlisted men of color. He was 29 years old, single and working as a farmer when he enlisted on 14 March 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He went missing on 16 July 1863 on the Gullah island of Sol Legare[1] during a skirmish, and is presumed killed in action.[2]

Note: There is also a Private Albert Gilbert Wall in Company G.

In a letter to the Weekly Anglo-African from Sergeant George E. Stephens: Albert Walls, of one of the missing or killed, did not hear the order to fall back and remained at his post and fought until killed or taken prisoner.[3]

His first cousins James & Josiah Cole, and George, Wesley & William Jay all also served with Company B.

Philadelphia recruitment required extra care in protecting the new recruits who had been previously denied the right to volunteer and serve their country as free men. The race-motivated riots of the 1840s in Philadelphia were not yet forgotten, and the Massachusetts State Agent helping with recruiting in Philadelphia, a white man named Robert R. Corson, was obliged to buy the recruits' railroad tickets and arrange their arrivals in small parties to avoid undesired attention from detractors.[4]

Legacy

Private Walls is remembered in Dr. Gooch's 2018 book Hinsonville's Heroes.

Projects

Sources

  1. pronounced sawl la-gree
  2. Emilio, McKay Roster
  3. Gooch, p. 24
  4. Emilio, p. 9




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Rejected matches › Albert Gilbert Wall (abt.1843-)