To let you know that I am alive: Civil War Letters of Capt. John R. Graton, First Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment

To let you know that I am alive: Civil War Letters of Capt. John R. Graton, First Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment

Since here I have been stopping partly with the hay parties and partly in town We were paid off shortly before leaveng Ft. 5 John R. Graton Civil War sendee records, Company C, Seventy-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry (New), Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served the Uni...

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Published in:The Arkansas historical quarterly 2019-04, Vol.78 (1), p.57-80
Main Author: Christ, Mark K.
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
African Americans
American Civil War
Armed forces
Correspondence
Deaths
Fatalities
Genealogy
Graton, John R
Military officers
Military service
Militia groups
War
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Summary:Since here I have been stopping partly with the hay parties and partly in town We were paid off shortly before leaveng Ft. 5 John R. Graton Civil War sendee records, Company C, Seventy-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry (New), Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served the United States Colored Troops: 56th-138th USCT Infantry, 1864-1866, Carded Records Showing Military Sendee of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the .American Civil War, compiled 1890-1912, Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, reproduced at Fold3.com (accessed April 11, 2019) [hereinafter USCT Compiled Military Sendee Records]; births, marriages, deaths, 1855-1892, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Falmouth, MA. 6 Adelaide Stewart was bom on December 15, 1840, near Flint, MI, the daughter of Samuel and Jane Taylor Stewart. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas, 1861-1865, vol. 1 (Topeka: J. K. Hudson, 1896), 141; James M. Williams Civil War service records, Seventy-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry (New), USCT Compiled Military Service Records; Spurgeon, Soldiers in the Army of Freedom, 59, 268; Robert W. Lull, Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams: Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2013), 206-207, 222. 45Historian Carl Moneyhon observed: "The 1865 season showed that the interest in using freedmen to farm small units was as strong among the freedmen as among military officials or white lessees. Since they usually could not buy land, the lease of small plots was the best means that they had to achieve work freedom.
ISSN:0004-1823
2327-1213