M.A. Kleen

My latest article at Emerging Civil War examines the strange story of John Lott, allegedly “The first colored man that shouldered a musket in the Union Army.” It is a fascinating and unconventional story that stretches from southern Indiana to one of the war’s first engagements and, finally, to the battle of the Crater. It reveals a man whose journey was not of valor, but of violence. Check it out: John Lott – “The first colored man that shouldered a musket in the Union Army”