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Garrison Frazier [1] (1798? - 1873) was an African-American Baptist minister and public figure during the U.S. Civil War.He acted as spokesman for twenty African-American Baptist and Methodist ministers who met on January 12, 1865 with Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, of the Union Army's Military Division of the Mississippi, and with U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, at General ...
Frazier also received a final visit from his mother, sister and counsel before the death sentence was carried out. [7] Frazier was the fourth condemned inmate in Alabama to undergo a nitrogen gas execution since 2024. Frazier was also the first person executed in Alabama in 2025, as well as the third execution to happen in the U.S. that same year.
In the 1960s, for a second decade, the United States FBI continued to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1960s decade in context, and then an historical list of individual suspects whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1960s, under FBI ...
With U.S. Civil War public figure Garrison Frazier and nineteen other African-American ministers and church officials, Harris met with Military Division of the Mississippi Union Army Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton on January 12, 1865, at Sherman's Green-Meldrim House headquarters in Savannah, Georgia.
Frazier B. Baker was an African-American teacher who was appointed as postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina, in 1897 under the William McKinley administration. He and his infant daughter Julia Baker died at his house after being fatally shot during a white mob attack on February 22, 1898. The mob set the house on fire to force the family out.
Others who participated included Garrison Frazier, Ulysses L. Houston, and William Gaines. [3] Their discussion directly led to Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15, which included the famous Forty acres and a mule land allotment. [4] Following the Civil War, Lynch later joined other missionaries in South Carolina.
Garrison Brown’s official cause of death has been revealed by the coroner. Brown died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to an autopsy report obtained by People on Wednesday, May 15. His ...
General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...