There is something about these guys you need to know. They don't notice the rain at all when they have their brothers on their mind.
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On Christmas Eve, Lane ran away from the plantation and walked the 25 miles to Pulaski, Tennessee, where he joined the 111th U.S. Colored Infantry for the Union Army.
Walker speculates today that his ancestor’s sale to a man named Green accounts for the name change in military records.
“When he joined the Union, his last name was Green,” he said. “After the war, you could pick your own name, so he went back to Lane, which was probably also a slave name, but it was his first.”
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