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COURAGEOUS A frican A m erican s
Highly Rated but not the Right Color
A fter exem plary and
the ready and able sup­
heroic service in the Civil
ply o f A frican-A m erican
War, Christian Fleetwood
volunteers. Interest in
was show ered with praise
the w ar had started to
and m e d als. H o w ev er
decline in the North as
w hen it w as tim e to pro­
th e w h ite p o p u la tio n
m ote him, the sam e m ili­
was becom ing more con­
tary turned its back on
c e rn ed w ith th e fa st­
him. The U.S. Army would by R o n W eb e
moving industrial growth
have no part in allow ing a
and the econom ic possi-
b lack m an to co m m an d w hite b ilitie s that w ent w ith a good
troops.
econom y.
Fleetw ood’s heroism gave great
W ith opportunities opening up
credence to the abilities o f African in the A rm y, Fleetw ood was ac­
A m ericans on the battlefield.
cepted into Com pany G o f the 4 ,h
He w as rem em bered as a child R egim ent o f the new US C olored
w ho w as bom to ,----------------------
u p p e r m id d le
class free black
parents. A new s­
paperm an, W ill­
iam E. M athew s,
noted:
O ur first rec­
o lle c tio n
of
young
F le e t-
w o o d w as th e
n o v e l sig h t o f
seeing him as a
child o f four or
fiv e y e a rs, e l­
egantly dressed
in an e m b r o i­
dered jacked and
silken hose, the
pet and pride of
the household.
A s a fu ll- C hristian F le etw o o d
grow n m an he w ould never see a V olunteerlnfantryon Aug. 11,1863.
height o f more than five feet four His leadership and organizational
in c h es. H o w ev er, F le e tw o o d ’s abilities w ere noted im m ediately
courage m ade him stand as tall as and he w as prom oted to the co m ­
many a man w hile he fought for pany sergeant major.
America.
Fleetw ood lead his troops into
H is ability to com m and becam e 17 different m ajor battles and nu­
clear after he graduated from Lin­ m erous sm all encounters with the
coln U niversity w hen he w orked enem y. His troops proved to be
for a B altim ore shipping com pany relentless and fearless w hile on the
and during his off tim e, founded the battlefield. On Sept. 29, 1864,
L yceum O bserver (1863), the first F leetw ood’s bravery and “disre­
black-ow ned and published jo u r­ gard for his ow n life," during the
nal south o f the M ason-D ixon line. battle o f C h afin ’s Farm at N ew
T he O bserver w as designed to M arket H eights in V irginia led to
help African Americans betterthem - som ething that had never happened
selves academ ically and was con­ before. O ne hundred percent o f all
nected to the prestigious G albraith the w hite officers in his regim ent
Lyceum Society, w hich served the petitioned Secretary o f W ar Edw in
black elite.
Stanton to m ake Sgt. C hristian
A s the Civil W ar continued on Fleetw ood the A rm y’s first black
much longer than expected, the officer. Sadly this action w as d e­
N orth decided to start enlisting nied by Stanton w ho said, “There
black soldiers. Com m anders needed w as no law under w hich such a
com m ission could be given.”
D eservedly though, Fleetw ood
was given the M edal o f Honor,
w hich w as a huge honor for a black
person in the m ilitary. Y ears later,
during the Spanish A m erican War,
he w as finally given w hat he truly
deserved and was m ade an officer.
Fleetw ood m arried and had two
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