![]() During that era, this was a requirement for all nonwhite, free individuals. The Letter This document is a letter from 1861 from the clerk of court in Spartanburg, S.C., certifying that my fourth great-grandfather Kennedy Scott, who was never enslaved, was in fact free. Shaquan McDowell, 23, of Boston shared this document and the story behind it. When Wallace was asked by my father and uncles why he was so kind to the very people who had held him in captivity, he replied, “Because I want to go to Heaven.” He was a symbol of keeping your eye on the prize. So it’s always held a special meaning for me. The Legacy My grandmother Mamie White, Wallace’s youngest daughter, gave me my middle name: Wallace. He saved Whiteford’s life, so Whiteford was always indebted to Wallace. I can only imagine he would have killed him with a gun, because if not, it would have been another part to the story - that he killed a man with his bare hands. At some point during their campaign in Vicksburg, Miss., Whiteford needed to use the bathroom, and the best place for him to do it was behind a haystack.Īll of the sudden, there was a Confederate soldier who was about to kill him, and Wallace White saw the man and killed him. The fellow to the left of him in the image is one of the men who helped free my great-grandfather. The Story Wallace was freed before the end of the Civil War by Union soldiers, from the field where he was enslaved in Mount Sterling, Ky.Īs the story goes, when the cavalry came through, they asked Wallace if he wanted to go and fight with them, to which he replied “’Deed I do!” He stayed with them until he mustered out at the end of the war. ![]() My great-grandfather Wallace White sits at the bottom, third from the right. Every 10 years, the Missouri Sixth Cavalry had a reunion and a group photo was taken. The Photograph This was always in the family picture book. Moses Berry, 69, of Ashgrove, Mo., shared this photograph and the story behind it.
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