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Sergeant Isaac Sawyer, Company C, 38th US Colored Infantry
Isaac Sawyer (1842-1920) – Sergeant, Company C, 38th United States Colored Infantry Regiment. grave at Chestnut Cemetery. The 38th United States Colored Infantry was an African American unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Sgt Sawyer is listed in rosters of the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. The 38th Regiment was formed in January 1964 near Norfolk, VA and saw hard fighting in these battles around Richmond during September-October 1864: Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights, Deep Bottom, and Fair Oaks.
After the surrender of Confederate armies in Virginia and North Carolina, the 38th USCT was deployed to Texas to counter France’s military intervention in Mexico. The regiment served at Brownsville, at various points on the Rio Grande, and at Brazos Santiago, Indianola, and Galveston unit January 1867. Sgt Sawyer and his black comrades were mustered out on January 25, 1867.
The subject of this brief notice was born in Camden, N.C.; April 18, 1842, and died in Ocala, Fla., October 8, 1920. He had at least 4 sons and 7 daughters with Margaret Sawyer. He came to Florida in 1900, and he lived until 1913 in Lake County, Florida, when he took up his residence in Ocala, where he died. He was buried in the Oak Ridge Cemetery (now Chestnut Cemetery).
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