"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Maj. George W. Ford and Harriett Bythewood
Photo of an older Maj. George Ford. George Ford was the youngest child born on the Mount Vernon Plantation to William and Priscella Ford in 1847. Major Ford was educated on the Mount Vernon...
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Photo of George and Harriet Ford at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. In June 1938, his portrait was placed in the archives at Leavenworth, Kansas as the last lone survior...
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Major George Ford was born in the room above the spinning room on the Mount Vernon Plantation.
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A drawing of West Ford around 73 years old by journalist/artist Benson Lossing at the Mount Vernon Plantation in 1859 from the Harper's New Monthly Magazine. In Lossing...
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Venus was a handmaid on the Bushfield Plantation. Bushfield was owed by John Augustine Washington, a brother of George Washington. As a child, Venus' mother, Jenny, was the...
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William Ford was the son of West Ford and Priscella Bell. William was born abt 1813-1814 on the Mount Vernon Plantation and died in 1874. He married Henrietta Bruce on September 3rd, 1840....
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Photo of Major George Ford in his military uniform. He was a Quartermaster Sergeant when he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1876, from the 10th Cavalry. He was commended in...
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This is the list of the men who joined the 10th Cavalry Company L with Major George Ford.
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Copy of Major Ford's enlistment contract when he joined the 10th Cavalry.
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Form detailing the enlistment of Major George Ford. U.S., 10th Cavalry, Returns from Regulary Army Cavalry Regiments 1866-1916.
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Major George Ford did two tours with the 10th Calvary. This document shows his reinlistment on September 11, 1872.
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Photo of Major George W. Ford in full military attire in the 23rd Kansas Volunteers, with the rank of Major during the Spanish-American War. He became personal friends with Teddy Roosevelt...
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Photo of the enlistment document of Major George Ford into the 23rd Kansas Volunteers during the Spanish American War.
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Major George Ford's Unit iin the 23rd Kansas Volunteers. For more information visit:...
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This is a front view photo of the home of Maj. George Ford on the Camp Butler National Cemetery grounds where he and his family lived. The house has been remodeled to what it appears to today...
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A side view photo of the home on Camp Butler National Cemetery that Major Ford lived on when he moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1906.
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Title: From Mount Vernon to Springfield, Illinois Register, 1937.
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Camp Bulter admin building in Springfield, Illinois. Photo by Angela Allen Henry.
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A college of the distinquished Major George Ford through the years until is death at the age of 91, by Angela Allen Henry.
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Various photos of Major George W. Ford at different ages in life.
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