Excerpted from African American Faces of the Civil War by Ronald S. Coddington.
Copyright 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Reprinted by permission of the author and Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/10717/african-american-faces-civil-war
729 Special Order No. 22, Headquarters Department of Mississippi. OR, I, XLVIII, 2: 1,177.
730 Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and Its Surroundings, p. 117.
731 1860 Slave Schedules; Charles English pension record, NARS.
732 Charles English military service record, NARS; Charles English pension record, NARS.
*Photo courtesy of the Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection, James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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