"COLORED MEN OFF FOR WAR"
The Florence Times, Friday, July 19, 1918, p. 4.

COLORED MEN OFF FOR WAR

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Twenty-Five Soldiers Left Florence
Yesterday for Camp Pike

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Following the departure of twenty-one white men for Camp Sevier last Tuesday, on yesterday twenty-five colored men took their departure for military service, their destination being Camp Pike. The list is composed of the following names:

        Bodie Cuningham 
        George Armstead 
        Ernest Williams 
        Joe Parker 
        Howard Harden 
        Henry E. Harris 
        Richard Simpson 
        George W. Mitchell 
        Henry Simpson 
        Sam Stewart 
        Dan Houston 
        Theodore Gray 
        Tom Shears 
        Arthur Weakley 
        Joe Edwards 
        Jack Bailey 
        Jesse Ingram 
        Tom Shelton 
        Will Duncan 
        William Thompson 
        Alonzo Reed 
        Horace J. Freeman 
        Jesse Barnett 
        Shelby Timmons 
        Ed Duckett
   
     Alternates. 

        Luther Johnson 
        Ed Vaughn 
        Alex Armstead 
        William Wilson 
        Jackson Hooks 
        Fayette Brewster 
        Tenny Simpson 
        Ed Rushing 
        Cornelius Beasley 
        Albert Wilson

Following these two contingents, on the 25^th of July, next, forty-five white men will leave Florence for Camp Hancock, Ga., to join the colors. It is announced that this last contingent will leave at 5 o'clock in the morning.