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Conclusion.
My personal forebodings proved to be correct, and so were the threats of the surgeons.

In May, 1864, I went home invalided, was compelled to resign in October from the same cause, and never saw the First South Carolina again.

Nor did any one else see it under that appellation, for about that time its name was changed to the Thirty-Third United States Colored Troops, "a most vague and heartless baptism," as the man in the story says.

It was one of those instances of injudicious sacrifice of _esprit de corps_ which were so frequent in our army.