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Rikers 26th USCT’s
chaplain Rev. Benjamin Franklin Randolph later worked in S.C. with the
Freedmen’s Bureau. Elected State Senator & head of S.C. GOP. He was
gunned down by 3 white men as he stepped off a train at Hodges Depot, Abbey-
ville, S.C. Later a cemetery was estab- lished in Columbia, S.C. in his honor.
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The Rev.
Benjamin Franklin Randolph image is based on one
athttp://members.aol.com/AASCRoom4/SC1868LegislatureR1.htm
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that is part of a South Carolina African
American history web site created in 1999 by EEVaughn aka Pastense2.
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The J. Tracy Power photo
of the Randolph Cemetery obelisk appears on Page 10 of South
Carolina’s Historic Cemeteries: A Preservation Handbook by Susan
H. McGahee and Mary W. Edmonds on the web site of the South Carolina
Department of Archives and History at
http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/hstcm.pdf
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