"Sgt. John Y. Udaka, of Birmingham, American born Japanese, has been in service three and a half years, six months of which have been spent in France and Italy, fighting with the 92nd Division. He is now a patient at Northington General Hospital....
The handwritten message reads, "There is my school mates what do you think of them...there is a boy out side waiting for me to fight." The postcard is sent from Hurricane, Alabama, and the postmark date is September 11, 1907.
(No photograph in uniform is known to exist.) Mexican War veteran. Appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs by the Confederate government at the outbreak of war. Commissioned as a brigadier general in August 1861. Responsible for the Department...
(Photograph has a colonel's insignia on his collar, but the button arrangement of a brigadier general. Although photographed many times as a general, Thompson was never promoted above the rank of lieutenant colonel.) Raised a battalion to fight for...