"Colored Men Off For War"
SOURCE: Florence Times, Friday, July 19, 1918, p. 4.
COLORED MEN OFF FOR WAR
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Twenty-Five Soldiers Left Florence
Yesterday for Camp Pike
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Following the departure of twenty-one white men for Camp Sevier last Tuesday, on yesterday twenty-five colored men took their departure for military service, their destination being Camp Pike. The list is composed of the following names:
Bodie Cuningham
George Armstead
Ernest Williams
Joe Parker
Howard Harden
Henry E. Harris
Richard Simpson
George W. Mitchell
Henry Simpson
Sam Stewart
Dan Houston
Theodore Gray
Tom Shears
Arthur Weakley
Joe Edwards
Jack Bailey
Jesse Ingram
Tom Shelton
Will Duncan
William Thompson
Alonzo Reed
Horace J. Freeman
Jesse Barnett
Shelby Timmons
Ed Duckett
Alternates:
Luther Johnson
Ed Vaughn
Alex Armstead
William Wilson
Jackson Hooks
Fayette Brewster
Tenny Simpson
Ed Rushing
Cornelius Beasley
Albert Wilson
Following these two contingents, on the 25th of July, next, forty-five white men will leave Florence for Camp Hancock, Ga., to join the colors. It is announced that this last contingent will leave at 5 o'clock in the morning.