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Education
This website provides students of history with an opportunity to explore primary sources, whilst contributing to their preservation and study. It will also allow African American genealogists to link descendants to the soldiers and through them to earlier ancestors. The transcription process allows users to leave comments, raising awareness of individual soldier's stories and the challenges they faced in a white-dominated Army.
We will be updating this page with educational resources as the project progresses.
The logo of our site is of Abram Garvin, who served in the 108th USCT Infantry. Here is his full photo, followed by some of the details of his life that we were able to transcribe from Sergeant Garvin's military service record:
Name: Sergeant Abram Garvin, 108th U.S. Colored Infantry, F company
Born: 1842 in Hart County Kentucky
Occupation: Farm hand and blacksmith, owned until 1864 by Sinclair Garvin of Virginia
Enlisted: June 28, 1864 in Louisville Kentucky
Deployed: As a prison guard at Rock Island, IL, and in Mississippi
Mustered out: March 21, 1866 in Vicksburg Mississippi