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Forgotten Rebels: Blacks Who Served the Confederacy |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Craig J. Renner |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,630 Words, 16,421 Characters |
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Since then, he has spent a great deal of time trying to confirm through military records his ancestor's service in the war. "The only unit I can document him being with is the First Maryland regiment," Ford says. The only thing he knows for sure is that Jenkins left his home in Charles County in southern Maryland, crossed the Potomac River that separates the Free State from Virginia (and, at that time, Union and rebel states), and was mustered into Confederate service around Petersburg in 1862. Ford has extensively searched through rosters of Virginia soldiers and has found enlistment records, though incomplete, for several soldiers with the name John Jenkins.
Ford isn't sure which one is his relative, though, in part because of a complicating factor in his search: John Jenkins was a fr...
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..., Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1995.
Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the Civil War, Little, Brown, Boston, 1953.
Richard Rollins, ed., Black Southerners in Gray: Essays on Afro-Americans in Confederate Armies, Journal of Confederate History Series, vol. 11, Southern Heritage Press, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1994.
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