Abraham Lincoln, a negro not killed by John Wilkes Booth

Abraham Lincoln was born near the Tar River in the north¬ ern part of Pitt County, North Carolina, about the year 1840; an illiterate negro, he did not know his own birthday. At the out¬ break of the Civil War he was living at Columbia, Louisiana, working as a slave raising corn and cotton for his master. Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the military and naval forces of the United States having possessed the lower Mississippi, the subject of this sketch, age 23, as shown Ijy the records of the War Department, enlisted in the United States Army, in Com¬ pany E, 3 Miss. Vol. Inft., African Descent, at Milliken's Bend, La., December 28, 1863. This regiment was subsequently known as the 53 U. S. Colored Infantry. On May 31, 1864, the regiment was in the First Brigade, First Division of Colored Troops, Sixteenth Army Corps, and on April 30, 1865, when stationed near the defenses of Vicksburg, the brigade was known as Maltliy's. The service of this regiment was mainly in Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. It participated in the battles of Haynes' Bluff, Miss., Feb. 23, 1864; Grand Gulf, Miss., July 16, 1864, and White River, Ark., Oct. 32, 1864, at which last date the regiment was on a steamboat fired on from the south bank of the river. The regiment was also in the expedition to Grand Gulf from Vicksburg, March 13 and 14, 1865. After a faithful service, officially computed at two years, two months and eleven days, Abraham Lincoln, private soldier, was honorably discharged from the military service of the United States, March 8, 1866, at Vicksburg, Miss., at which place he continued to live for some years. Following the occupation of a laborer, he subsequently lived at Lake Providence, La., Manhattan and Topeka, Kans.. and Hennessey and Oklahoma, Okla. University of Iowa | digital.lib.uiowa.edu/lincoln