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Re: Echos Of The Blue And Grey 26:38

More Evidence :

Alabama :
The 57th Alabama Infantry show a slave named Dave as their fifer. A slave named Jerry as their drummer, The roll is dated, Sept-Oct 1863. Their owner was the regiment's Colonel.

Virginia :
The often written about, Richard, Poplar, Private, (cook) Co.H, 13th Virginia Cavalry, was captured on the retreat from Gettysburg. Spent the remainder of the war at Point Lookout. He was apparently "free-born." There's nothing in his Confederate record to indicate he's a Black man. His burial record on the other hand is plain he was of the "colored" race.

North Carolina :
Black Confederate Seaman, Benjamin Gray was a twelve-year-old youth who enlisted in the C.S. Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina. One of the several ships he served on was the Albermarle. In June 1917, while a resident of Bertie County NC, Gray applied for a Confederate Pension from North Carolina. It was approved the following month. After his death in 1924, his widow, Margaret was granted a pension based upon his service. Nothing is mentioned in either record about their race.

Tennessee:
Confederate Private John Hammonds, Co.E 5th ((McKenzie's) east Tennessee Cavalry wrote to "a dear uncle" Feb. 10, 1862 from Knoxville. After speaking of their location and caring for comrades sick with the measles, he mentions a "small chunk of a fight" with the "Lincolnites " two days before. "We killed six of them & taken one prisoner & wounded ten more. Jack Thomas a colored person that belongs to our company killed one of them."
There is a record for a Jackson Thomas in Co.E but no indication of his race. Both men were killed at the Battle of Big Creek Gap in east Tennessee in March, 1863. According to Confederate records both men may have been killed after being wounded and captured.

Georgia : Georgia's 18th Infantry Battalion had a cook named Scipio Africanus. There are 16 file cards in his record. He enlisted in Jan.1863, was paroled at Appomattox Listed as belonging to the "colored troops." Apparently the Yankees considered him a Confederate soldier.

Mississippi : . Solomon Littleton, listed as a servant, 3rd Mississippi Infantry. Died a P.O.W. at Camp Morton, Indiana. March 2, 1862

South Carolina :
Henry "Dad" Brown (free-negro) served from 1862 to the war's end as a drummer in the 8th & 21st South Carolina Infantry. Also a veteran of The War of 1812 and The Mexican War.

Florida : Tony Fontaine (also known as Anthony Welker) and Isaac Papino were negro Musicians in the 3rd Florida infantry. They enlisted in August, 1861.

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