Enlistment Record for William Hewlin

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Title

Enlistment Record for William Hewlin

Alternative Title

William Hewlin's Enlistment Record

Subject

Veterans--Florida
American Civil War, 1861-1865

Description

The enlistment record for William Hewlin by the United States Colored Troops on June 12, 1863. The record provided individual information on soldiers including name, age, birthplace, occupation, date of enlistment, and location of enlistment.

William Hewlin was a runaway slave from Saint Augustine, Florida. On January 12, 1863, Hewlin enlisted into the Company B, First Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, serving as a Private during the American Civil War. During his time in the military, he was granted an official absence on furlough to marry his wife, Victoria, on February 7, 1864. After the war, he and his wife settled in Saint Augustine, where they had four children: George, John, Cato, and Julia. Hewlin passed away sometime before or during the year 1890, and later was buried in the Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida, in Section A, Plot 185.

In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program Project. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for K-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.

Creator

United States Colored Troops

Source

Digital reproduction of original United States Colored Troops Military Service Record Enlistment Card, June 12, 1863: National Archives and Records Administration.

Publisher

United States Colored Troops

Date Created

1863-06-12

Format

image/jpg

Extent

397 KB

Medium

1 enlistment record

Language

eng

Type

Text

Coverage

Beaufort, South Carolina

Accrual Method

Donation

Mediator

History Teacher

Provenance

Originally created and published by the United States Colored Troops.

Rights Holder

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Curator

Stoddard, James

External Reference

Abney, Barb. "VA Selects UCF Historians to Archive Stories of Deceased Veterans Veterans." UCF Today, March 13, 2017. Accessed August 9, 2017. https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/.
Lardas, Mark, and Peter Dennis. African American Soldier in the Civil War: USCT, 1862-66. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012. .

Citation

United States Colored Troops, “Enlistment Record for William Hewlin,” RICHES, accessed October 9, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/10702.

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