Abraham Galloway
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Abraham Harris Galloway was an American abolitionist and politician. A former slave, he served as a Union Army spy and early black political organizer in eastern North Carolina during the American Civ
An etching of an 1857 photograph of Galloway
Fugitive slaves entering New Bern, January 1863.
Galloway attended Lincoln's funeral procession (depicted) on April 19, 1865 in Washington D.C..
Historical marker commemorating Galloway in Wilmington
Joseph Carter Abbott
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Joseph Carter Abbott was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War who was awarded the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers and a Republican United States senator from the state of
Abraham Galloway
…remain where they are." On October 17, 1867, the New Hanover County Republican convention nominated Galloway as one of three candidates—the others, Joseph Carter Abbott and Samuel S. Ashley, being white northerners—for the delegation to the constitutional convention. Voters in the county overwhelmingly voted in favor…
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Abbott in U.S. Army uniform