Samuel Chapman Armstrong | |
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 Samuel C. Armstrong, c. 1865 | |
| First President of Hampton Institute | |
| In office 1868–1893 | |
| Preceded by | Incumbent |
| Succeeded by | Hollis B. Frisell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 30, 1839 Wailuku, Kingdom of Hawaiʻi |
| Died | May 11, 1893 (aged 54) Hampton, Virginia, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hampton Institute school cemetery, Hampton, Virginia |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States (Union) |
| Branch/service | Union Army |
| Years of service | 1862–1865 |
| Rank |  Colonel Bvt. Brigadier General |
| Unit | 125th New York Infantry Regiment 9th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment |
| Commands | 8th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment |
| Battles/wars | |
Samuel Chapman Armstrong (January 30, 1839 – May 11, 1893) was an American soldier and general during the American Civil War who later became an educator, particularly of non-whites. The son of missionaries in Hawaii, he rose through the Union Army during the American Civil War to become a general, leading units of Black American soldiers.[1] He became best known as an educator, founding and becoming the first principal of the normal school for Black American and later Native American pupils in Virginia which later became Hampton University.[2] He also founded the university's museum, the Hampton University Museum, which is the oldest Black American museum in the country, and the oldest museum in Virginia.
- ^ Robert Francis Engs, Samuel C. Armstrong (1839-1893) available at https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Armstrong_Samuel_Chapman_1839-1893
- ^ Bowden, Henry Warner (1993). Dictionary of American Religious Biography (2nd. rev. and enl. ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-313-27825-3.