Friday, August 23, 2019 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Forgotten People, Local History, Photograph Collection, Uncategorized

Did your African American Ancestor March From Asheville to Volunteer in the Spanish American War?

In our recent post “PART 2: A WHO’S WHO LIST OF PROMINENT BLACK ASHEVILLE BUSINESSMEN IN 1922” we were giving the story of Noah Murrough and said that he had joined the Maceo Volunteers, a company of “colored men under Capt. Thomas L. Leatherwood” that left Asheville in July 1898 for Cuba. It occured to me