Simeon W. Beard was an American minister, teacher, and politician who worked in Charleston, South Carolina and then in Augusta, Georgia.
It noted his calls to arm Black militias to protect African Americans.
[11] In 1867 he compared the American Civil War to the Biblical account of the parting of the Red Sea in Egypt to make way for freedom for the Jews.
[12] He partnered with white Freedmen's Bureau agent John Bryant to establish the Loyal Georgian newspaper.
[14] Emily Edson Briggs described his appearance and wrote that "his words burn as if they had been forged in a redhot furnace.