�Oh, praise an� tanks De Lord he come To set de people free; An� massa tink it day ob doom, An we ob jubilee.� During the American Civil War more than 2,000 regiments of infantry, cavalry and artillery mustered to fight in the conflict. Re-discover a regiment very little is known about: The first black regiment in the Union Army, the first to fight against Confederate soldiers and the first to be brigaded with white regiments�the 1st South Carolina Volunteers.