He drowned while bathing in the Gulf of Mexico at age 28. The port of Brazos Santiago was located on Brazos Island in what is now Cameron County.
Julian was a Colonel on active duty in the Union army at the time of his death. The Civil War had ended just a month before. He was a strong abolitionist and had worked to improve the rights and treatment of black soldiers insisting that they be the same as white soldiers. He was aided in this effort by his famous uncle William Cullen Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, who wrote articles about the inequality between black and white in the army. More information about Julian can be obtained from an article by Karen Berfield in the April 1983 issue of Civil War Times, which can be found here: http://www.historynet.com/union-officer-julian-bryant-a-voice-for-black-soldiers.htm
Julian was a Colonel on active duty in the Union army at the time of his death. The Civil War had ended just a month before. He was a strong abolitionist and had worked to improve the rights and treatment of black soldiers insisting that they be the same as white soldiers. He was aided in this effort by his famous uncle William Cullen Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, who wrote articles about the inequality between black and white in the army. More information about Julian can be obtained from an article by Karen Berfield in the April 1983 issue of Civil War Times, which can be found here: http://www.historynet.com/union-officer-julian-bryant-a-voice-for-black-soldiers.htm
He drowned while bathing in the Gulf of Mexico at age 28. The port of Brazos Santiago was located on Brazos Island in what is now Cameron County.
Julian was a Colonel on active duty in the Union army at the time of his death. The Civil War had ended just a month before. He was a strong abolitionist and had worked to improve the rights and treatment of black soldiers insisting that they be the same as white soldiers. He was aided in this effort by his famous uncle William Cullen Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, who wrote articles about the inequality between black and white in the army. More information about Julian can be obtained from an article by Karen Berfield in the April 1983 issue of Civil War Times, which can be found here: http://www.historynet.com/union-officer-julian-bryant-a-voice-for-black-soldiers.htm
Julian was a Colonel on active duty in the Union army at the time of his death. The Civil War had ended just a month before. He was a strong abolitionist and had worked to improve the rights and treatment of black soldiers insisting that they be the same as white soldiers. He was aided in this effort by his famous uncle William Cullen Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, who wrote articles about the inequality between black and white in the army. More information about Julian can be obtained from an article by Karen Berfield in the April 1983 issue of Civil War Times, which can be found here: http://www.historynet.com/union-officer-julian-bryant-a-voice-for-black-soldiers.htm
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