The Donald L. Logan Civil War Memorial Page – People – Non-Commissioned Civil War Officers and Enlisted Men
Andrew Jackson Smith (1843-1932)
Andrew Jackson Smith was the last Black Civil War soldier to receive a Medal of Honor. Smith was born on September...
Alfred Fairfax (c.1843– c.1916)
Elected to the state House of Representatives in 1888, Alfred Fairfax was the first African American to serve in the Kansas legislature. A...
Christian Abraham Fleetwood (1840-1914)
Christian Fleetwood, soldier, choir master, clerk, and abolitionist, was born free in Baltimore, Maryland to Charles Fleetwood and Anna Marie...
Robert Alexander Pinn (1843-1911)
Robert A. Pinn, attorney, and Civil War hero, received the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. ...
Henry Davis Green (1827-1911)
Henry Davis Green was an anti-slavery activist (abolitionist) who was a participant in the Christiana Resistance (also known as the...
William J. Simmons (1849-1890)
Born into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina on June 29, 1849, William J. Simmons served as the second president of...
Henry Francis Downing (1846-1928)
Henry Francis Downing was an author, playwright, consul and sailor. He was born in New York City in 1846, the...
John Henry Murphy Sr. (1840-1922)
Born on December 25, 1840, in Baltimore, Maryland, John Henry Murphy grew up as a slave and freed by the...
Benjamin M. Holmes (1846-1875)
Teacher, news correspondent, and Fisk Jubilee Singer, Benjamin M. Holmes was born a slave around 1846 in Charleston, South Carolina...
