Hiram Rhodes Revels was born in North Carolina and served as a chaplain in the A.M.E. Church in Baltimore before the War in 1861. After the War began, he helped organize two all black units for the United States Army and then settled in Mississippi at the War’s conclusion. The Republican controlled Mississippi legislature sent him to the United States … Continue reading “Harmony, Friendship, and Mutual Confidence Would Have Taken the Place of the Bayonet”