black civil war veterans
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Tracing Your Roots: Was My Civil War Vet Ancestor an Overseer’s Son?
Family lore and death records contain conflicting information about the parentage of a forebear who served in the colored troops during the Civil War. Dear Professor Gates: I’m writing for help in tracing the parents of my third great-grandfather, William Owen Van Vaxen Goodlow. He lived in Missouri and Iowa, was married to Mary Nickelson…