Note: There is also a Private Albert Gilbert Wall who served in Company G of the 54th Massachusetts. The two men are distinct.
Albert G. Walls was born about 1834. He was the child of Rachel Hall and William Franklin Walls, Sr.
He was working as a farmer when he enlisted from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 14 March 1863 in Company B of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the second regiment in the United States made up entirely of enlisted men of color. He was missing in action on the Gullah island of Sol Legare on 16 July 1863 after a skirmish, and is presumed killed in action.
His first cousins James & Josiah Cole and George, Wesley & William Jay also served in Company B of the 54th.
Philadelphia recruitment required extra care in protecting the new recruits who had been previously denied the right to volunteer and serve their country as free men. The race-motivated riots of the 1840s in Philadelphia were not yet forgotten, and the Massachusetts State Agent helping with recruiting in Philadelphia, a white man named Robert R. Corson, was obliged to buy the recruits' railroad tickets and arrange their arrivals in small parties to avoid undesired attention from detractors.
To read more about Private Walls:
Hinsonville's Heroes by Dr. Cheryl Renée Gooch
To read more about the 54th Massachusetts:
Now or Never! by Ray Anthony Shepard
For ongoing collaborative research on Private Walls:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walls-1640
Albert G. Walls was born about 1834. He was the child of Rachel Hall and William Franklin Walls, Sr.
He was working as a farmer when he enlisted from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 14 March 1863 in Company B of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the second regiment in the United States made up entirely of enlisted men of color. He was missing in action on the Gullah island of Sol Legare on 16 July 1863 after a skirmish, and is presumed killed in action.
His first cousins James & Josiah Cole and George, Wesley & William Jay also served in Company B of the 54th.
Philadelphia recruitment required extra care in protecting the new recruits who had been previously denied the right to volunteer and serve their country as free men. The race-motivated riots of the 1840s in Philadelphia were not yet forgotten, and the Massachusetts State Agent helping with recruiting in Philadelphia, a white man named Robert R. Corson, was obliged to buy the recruits' railroad tickets and arrange their arrivals in small parties to avoid undesired attention from detractors.
To read more about Private Walls:
Hinsonville's Heroes by Dr. Cheryl Renée Gooch
To read more about the 54th Massachusetts:
Now or Never! by Ray Anthony Shepard
For ongoing collaborative research on Private Walls:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walls-1640
Note: There is also a Private Albert Gilbert Wall who served in Company G of the 54th Massachusetts. The two men are distinct.
Albert G. Walls was born about 1834. He was the child of Rachel Hall and William Franklin Walls, Sr.
He was working as a farmer when he enlisted from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 14 March 1863 in Company B of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the second regiment in the United States made up entirely of enlisted men of color. He was missing in action on the Gullah island of Sol Legare on 16 July 1863 after a skirmish, and is presumed killed in action.
His first cousins James & Josiah Cole and George, Wesley & William Jay also served in Company B of the 54th.
Philadelphia recruitment required extra care in protecting the new recruits who had been previously denied the right to volunteer and serve their country as free men. The race-motivated riots of the 1840s in Philadelphia were not yet forgotten, and the Massachusetts State Agent helping with recruiting in Philadelphia, a white man named Robert R. Corson, was obliged to buy the recruits' railroad tickets and arrange their arrivals in small parties to avoid undesired attention from detractors.
To read more about Private Walls:
Hinsonville's Heroes by Dr. Cheryl Renée Gooch
To read more about the 54th Massachusetts:
Now or Never! by Ray Anthony Shepard
For ongoing collaborative research on Private Walls:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walls-1640
Albert G. Walls was born about 1834. He was the child of Rachel Hall and William Franklin Walls, Sr.
He was working as a farmer when he enlisted from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 14 March 1863 in Company B of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the second regiment in the United States made up entirely of enlisted men of color. He was missing in action on the Gullah island of Sol Legare on 16 July 1863 after a skirmish, and is presumed killed in action.
His first cousins James & Josiah Cole and George, Wesley & William Jay also served in Company B of the 54th.
Philadelphia recruitment required extra care in protecting the new recruits who had been previously denied the right to volunteer and serve their country as free men. The race-motivated riots of the 1840s in Philadelphia were not yet forgotten, and the Massachusetts State Agent helping with recruiting in Philadelphia, a white man named Robert R. Corson, was obliged to buy the recruits' railroad tickets and arrange their arrivals in small parties to avoid undesired attention from detractors.
To read more about Private Walls:
Hinsonville's Heroes by Dr. Cheryl Renée Gooch
To read more about the 54th Massachusetts:
Now or Never! by Ray Anthony Shepard
For ongoing collaborative research on Private Walls:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walls-1640
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