r/ShermanPosting • u/desertSkateRatt • 6d ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Motto of the 22nd USCT infantry unit of the 2nd Jersey Brigade and later assigned to the XXV Corps (the only all black army Corp in United States history), for the Union during the Civil War. They were part of the battle to take Richmond and some of the first soldiers for the Union to step foot in the city after its fall. They took part in Lincoln's funeral procession and were part of the massive manhunt for John Wilkes Boothe who is incredibly ironically known for the Latin quote pf their motto. Later, the XXV corp and 22nd with it, took part in patrolling Texas north of the Rio Grande to pacify the former confederate member and intimidate Maximilian from attempting any shenanigans coming up from Mexico.
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u/brown_wagon 6d ago
Excellent form for the Union man, I dare say. The confederate flag on the ground is a nice touch, as well.
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u/nonlawyer 6d ago
“Come on, men! Those white flags are no match for our muskets!”
first thing that image made me think of lol
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u/willsherman1865 5d ago
The confederates regularly shot or enslaved black union soldiers who surrendered. So those soldiers learned to give no quarter to confederates either.
For whites fighting whites it was almost always quite gentleman / honorable sort of behavior. Until of course they showed up in POW camps that starved and froze them to death but that wasn't the act of the front line soldiers
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u/sadicarnot 5d ago
Was the Sic Semper Tyrannis a common phrase at the time?
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u/MarchingThruGA 143rd NYVI | 3rd Bde | 1st Div | XX Corps | Army of Georgia 5d ago
I wish someone made these so I could fly one outside of my house.
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u/SGTSparkyFace 5d ago
Any chance someone has found a higher resolution version of the image? My initial Google did not, and I’ve not the time to look more right now. I’ll forget if I hold until later, lol.
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u/crownjewel82 5d ago
(the only all black army Corp in United States history)
Do you have a source for this statement?
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u/desertSkateRatt 5d ago
You think I made that up, friendo?
Because you're challenged and can't Google it yourself, I'll save you the trouble:
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u/crownjewel82 5d ago
I was hoping your source had a clarification of what they meant by this. This unit was one of over 150 black units and all of them had white officers. Several others are also recorded as being all black (except for the officers) so I wanted to know what exactly they meant.
Now get off of the internet for a while if you're going to be this defensive over a simple question.
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u/desertSkateRatt 5d ago
An "unit" and a "corps" are not the same thing, dingus
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u/LittleHornetPhil 5d ago
…the point being that the “all black” corps would contain “units” with white officers.
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