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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
374 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.
375 McBride, The Union Occupation of Munfordville, Kentucky, 1861–1865, p. 3.
376 Lewis Chapman military service record, NARS.
377 Also on the back of Chapman’s carte de visite.
378 Ibid.
379 Harriett Chapman pension record, NARS.
380 Ibid.
*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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