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History of the American Negro in the Great World War

CHAPTER IX
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These pictures were carried on some of the currency of the Monumental bank of Charlestown, Massachusetts and the Freeman's bank of Boston.

Other black men fought at Bunker Hill, of whom we have the names of Salem Poor, Titus Coburn, Alexander Ames, Barzillai Lew and Gato Howe.

After the war these men were pensioned.
Prince, a Negro soldier, was Colonel Barton's chief assistant in capturing the British officer, Major General Prescott at Newport, R.I.
Primus Babcock received an honorable discharge from the army signed by General Washington.

Lambo Latham and Jordan Freeman fell with Ledyard at the storming of Fort Griswold.

Freeman is said to have killed Major Montgomery, a British officer who was leading an attack on Americans in a previous fight.


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