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Gettysburg National Military Park
Emmert Martin
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PVT Emmer Martin 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Battalion, Spanish American War.
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A moment of freedom becomes a lifetime of service – and a mystery. From his escape on the Planter with Robert Smalls to a long history of military service, learn Gabriel Turner's story in this article.
Gettysburg National Military Park
Nicholas Farrell
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PVT Nicholas Ferrell was an African American soldier who served during the Spanish American War. Nicholas is buried in the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Gettysburg National Military Park
Clifford Henderson
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Pvt. Clifford Henderson Company A, 9th Ohio Regiment.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., was born in Washington, D.C. in 1912. He graduated from West Point in 1936. He was the fourth African American to graduate from West Point. During World War II, he led the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. He attained the rank of four-star general in 1998. He died in 2002 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Leon Day
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Leon Day was born on October 30, 1916, in Alexandria, Virginia. He was one of the greatest pitchers in the Negro Leagues between 1934 and 1943. During World War II, he served with the 818th Amphibian Truck Company and was part of the Red Ball Express. He also played for the first integrated U.S. military baseball team, the OISE All-Stars. Day died on March 13, 1995, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was buried at Arbutus Memorial Park in Arbutus, Maryland.
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
Brigadier General Charles Young Tree
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In the fall of 1903, the Buffalo Soldiers who oversaw these parks that year held an end-of-season picnic. A local resident who attended, Phil Winser, wrote the following about Captain Charles Young, the leader of this contingent and the first African American superintendent of any national park: "They wanted to name a tree for our captain but he refused, saying they could do so if they felt the same way, twenty years hence..." He chose instead to name a sequoia for educator B
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Buffalo Soldiers and the Olympics
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Some African American Olympians went on to serve in the Army. Ralph Metcalf and John Woodruff competed and won medals as members of the U.S. Olympic Team. They then enlisted in the Army during World War II and were assigned to Buffalo Soldier regiments.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
John Woodruff
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John Youie Woodruff was born on July 15, 1915, in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Woodruff competed and won gold in the 1936 Olympics. In 1941, he enlisted in the New York National Guard and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 369th Coastal Artillery Regiment. He served during World War II and the Korean War. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1957. He died on October 30, 2007, in Fountain Hills Arizona, and is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Ralph Metcalfe
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Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. was born on May 29, 1910, in Atlanta, Georgia. He competed in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics and won gold, silver, and bronze medals. In 1942, he was appointed as a USO club director and later commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Transportation Corps in Plauche, Louisiana. From 1970 to 1978, he served as a U.S. congressman. On October 10, 1978, Metcalfe died in Chicago, Illinois, and was buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Waverly Bernard Woodson, Jr.
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Waverly Bernard Woodson, Jr., was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1922. Woodson studied pre-med at Lincoln University before becoming a medic in the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion. He landed on Omaha Beach in one of the first waves of soldiers on D-Day during World War II. He treated wounded and dying soldiers on the beach for more than 30 hours. He died in 2005 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Theophilus Gould Steward
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Theophilus Gould Steward was born on April 17, 1843, in Gouldtown, New Jersey. On July 25, 1891, Steward was appointed the first African American chaplain of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry. On April 17, 1907, Steward retired from the Army after 16 years of service. He moved to Wilberforce, Ohio and taught at Wilberforce University. On January 11, 1924, Steward died in Wilberforce. He was buried in Gouldtown Memorial Park.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
African American Army Nurses in World War II
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During World War II, women served closer to the frontlines than ever before. African American nurses were prominent figures that helped treat Black soldiers and Prisoners of War. They faced racial discrimination at home and abroad but persevered to give their all. Black nurses in the Army Nurse Corps were spread out around the globe, including England, Liberia, Guam, and Australia. The lives they positively impacted are innumerable.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Louise Virginia Lomax
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Louise Virginia Lomax was born in 1920 in Crewe, Virginia. During World War II, she was a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps assigned to the Tuskegee Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her care, along with the other nurses, kept the Tuskegee Airmen flying. In 1946, Lomax was transferred to Lockbourne Army Air Base near Columbus, Ohio. For her service during World War II, she was awarded the American Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Edward L. Baker Jr.
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Edward Lee Baker, Jr., was a Buffalo Soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Spanish American War in Cuba on July 1, 1898. He served in numerous units including the Forty-ninth Infantry, U.S. Volunteers. He was commissioned a captain in the Philippine Scouts in 1902. He died on August 26, 1913, at the age of 47 and was buried in Los Angeles, California.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Adam Paine
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Adam Paine was born in Florida in 1843. He personally experienced Indian Removal in the 1840s. Paine and other Black Seminoles relocated to Mexico in the 1850s. He later joined the Black Seminole Indian Scouts in 1873. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 26, 1874. He died on January 1, 1877.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
John Ward
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John Ward was a Black Seminole Indian born in 1847 in Arkansas. He served for 25 years in the Black Seminole Indian Scouts working along the Buffalo Soldiers on the Texas frontier. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions of April 25, 1875. He died in 1911 and was buried at the Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery in Brackettville, Texas.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Isaac Payne
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Isaac Payne was a Black Seminole born in Musquiz, Mexico in 1854. He enlisted as a trumpeter in the Seminole Indian Scouts in October of 1871. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on April 25, 1875. He died on January 12, 1904 and is buried int eh Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery in Brackettville, Texas.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Pompey Factor
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Pompey Factor was born in 1849 in Arkansas. He was a Black Seminole Indian Scout for 10 years, from 1870 to 1880. He helped the Buffalo Soldiers track various groups throughout the Southwest. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on April 25, 1875.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Black Seminole Indian Scouts
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Black Seminoles were descendants of self-emancipated formerly enslaved people from Coastal Carolina and Georgia who partially assimilated with the Seminole people of Florida. In 1870 a group of Black Seminoles who had migrated to Texas from Mexico formed the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts. They scouted for the U.S. Army on the Texas frontier. Four Black Seminoles received the Medal of Honor.