Draft:Ethan Earle
Ethan Earle was involved in organizing Black soldiers to fight in the Union army during the American Civil War.[1] He served with Company F of the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry.[2]
Is this him?
He lived in Parkville, Missouri and enlisted as a Captain? On Janiary 13, 1863 he was commissioned into "F" Co. US CT 79th Infantry?
He kept a journal (Captain Ethan Earle Memorandum Book).[3][4]
He wrote about his commanding officer James Lane's / James Henry Lane / Jim Lane (politician)'s views on African Americans and civil rights.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "First Kansas Colored Infantry: Organizing the Unit - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society".
- ^ Exploring the Facets of Revenge. BRILL. 14 April 2020. ISBN 978-1-84888-089-4.
- ^ Spurgeon, Ian Michael (22 October 2014). Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4722-2.
- ^ Epps, Kristen (2016). Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-5050-9.
- ^ Epps, Kristen (2016). Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-5050-9.