Draft:Ethan Earle

Ethan Earle was involved in organizing Black soldiers to fight in the Union army during the American Civil War. He served with Company F of the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry.

Is this him?

Lived in Parkville, Missouri and enlisted as a Captain? On Janiary 13, 1863 he was commissioned into "F" Co. US CT 79th Infantry?

He kept a journal (Captain Ethan Earle Memorandum Book).

He wrote about his commanding officer James? Lane's / Jakes Henry Lane / Jim Lane (politician) views on African Americans and civil rights.