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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
370 Theodore Francis Wright, who served as first lieutenant of Company F, wrote the quoted words on the back of his carte de visite of Brown.
371 Ibid.
372 A distant relative of Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Bannister Grant (1837–1912) married Maria Louise Richardson (1840–1933) in 1863. Her father, and George Brown’s previous owner, was Samuel Kirby Richardson, a wealthy Louisville builder. George Brown military service record, NARS; 1860 Slave Schedules; 1880 U.S. Census; Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, vol. 3, pp. 1638–1639.
373 George Brown military service record, NARS; George Brown 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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