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Milton Howard, Veteran of Civil War and ArsenalService, Dies; Was SlaveI Death met Milton Howard at the door of the Apostolic jFaith church, Eighth and Harrison streets Sunday after--! noon, and brought to a close the life of a venerable old I ! colored man whose days from boyhood were filled with ad- * ! ventures one would not expect to find other than in fic-»lion. Born a free man at Musca* !x!tine, kidnapped when a child and placed in slavery in the south, lie ran away, joined the union army, served honorably with an infanLry urn* and after his discharge wt-iu is work at the Island arsenalwhere he was employed for 56 j’Mts. He was one of four men who received gold medals for their! i service at. the arsenat. j{ Milton Howard was born in Mus J • catfne in 1S52. While a baby, altj i members of h?.s family were kid*j Snapped and taken 10 Alabama’ | where they were forced into slav-| jery. His master treated the slaves:| kindly, but kmdness did not ex-; ! tfnguish the spirit of patriotism of jt the boy from the oo»-th who ran)I away to join the Union army. He. i became a member of the Hoth U. S. 5 [Infantry and was mustered out Oct. I j 15, 1S65. The same vear lie came [: to Davenport and in 15S6 went* j to work at the arsenal.! Saved Commandant's Life-* *j Dunns his period of service ati , the arsenal, he sa*ed the life of! j Gen. D. IV. Flagler, arsenal com-;| maxidant. ■j ^ Gen. Flagler was walking on the j ice near a dam adjacent to the *J arsenal grounds. It was spring j land ihe ice gave way. The com-i jmandant went thru the spongy ice; MILTON HOWARD,i and was floundering about in the! , . . . . .!c«5d icater when Howard came to I T*? «««*lt;* th« arsenal lorhis rescue and saved his life. i **K » cent“^- ,nIn the summer of M3! m com-jAberdeen* hy Co“ D M K,nspaay with the three other men (Continued on Palt;» Two.i
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Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Mon, Mar 19, 1928
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