Maj. Martin R. Delany (USCT)
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| Martin Robison Delany was one of the highest ranking black infantry officers to serve in the Civil War, and the first black military officer to achieve the rank of Major in the U.S. Army. Receiving a commission from President Lincoln in February 1865, he was dispatched to South Carolina to raise two regiments of "colored troop" -- United States Colored Troops (USCT) -- the 104th and 105th Infantry. The 104th completed forming and was mustered into service during June 1865 -- about two months after General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox, VA. Since the war was concluding, the 105th Regiment was never completed. Maj. Delany continued to serve with the 104th as a staff officer and later as a Sub-Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Major Delany resigned his commission from the U.S. Army on August 5, 1868. After the war he served in a variety of official capacities in South Carolina and once ran for lieutenant governor of the state. Martin Delany died on January 24, 1885, at Wilberfore, OH. A wife, Catherine, six sons and one daughter survived him.
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