135th USCT's Re-enactment in Goldsboro This Weekend-- Part 5

Since their regiment number was so high, they were probably one of the last USCT regiments mustered in.  Plus, since it had members from Georgia and South Carolina, I imagine many of those men had been following Sherman's army.

After Confederate General Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham in late April, the 135th was one of the few black regiments to take part in the march in review along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. in front of the U.S. president.  (I had always thought that no USCT regiments were allowed to be in that march.)

After the war, the 135th was used to guard bridges and hospitals in Kentucky.

A partial list of the members of the 135th has been compiled.

--Old Secesh