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      "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.