|
28 July 1864
Mustered into service of the United States, for three years or during
the war, from date of enlistment, in Co "D" 8th Regiment of US. Hvy
Arty Colored Volunteers, at Paducah, KY.
|
----------- |
21 February 1866
Pvt. Ned Hopson
was discharged at
Victoria, Texas. Injuries suffered
resulting from a powder room explosion here, greatly compromised his
health; contributed to his being awarded a government pension. He had
to apply twice. At his death 4 January, 1896/, his wife received
this
pension until her death 21 July, 1924.
|
------------
|
3 May 1869
Ned Hopson
and Naomi Griffin
were married at Metropolis, IL. Son Edward
Hopson, first of 11 siblings was born at Unionville, Massac Co.
Illinois.
|
Mrs.
Millie Askew
Family
Progenitor
|
|
-- -- -- -- --
--
|
-- -- -- --
|
Our Family Patriarch and
Matriarch
|
|
|
|
|
18302005 |
The
Odyssey of an Afro-American Civil War Family
In
a more perfect world, even a slave would have been allowed to retain
family keep sakes, memorabilia, etc. The mentality of the New
World slavery was not about that. The founding fathers designed a
strategy for maximum dehumanization of their enslaved.
In searching for a story line, I used the musing of the poets, black
and white, to articulate the past. Since 1619, slavery had been a way
of
life in the New World. The Civil War and sectional questions relating
to slavery became a call for action.
"I,
Too, Sing America!"
Afterall,
it takes both black and white keys to 'play' our anthem; It took both
black and white colors to win the war. To be sure, in the beginning,
the colors of the Civil War were: all-white faces in Union blue, or
Confederate gray. The rhetoric was fever pitch and fractional.
The
Emancipation Proclamation introduced the color black. Black and white
did battle on fields made hallowed by their bloodshed, valor, and lost
of lives. The loss of generations, young and old; slave
and free, in quest of a more perfect union. "My country 'tis of thee."
|
Grand
-Aunt
[ Kate
Hopson ]
A Call to Arms
|
[Top]
|
|