A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army.
Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse, there to undergo a medical examination, preparatory to embarking for Hilton Head, S.
Montgomery swept away 126 men.
Storm over Key West is a little-known story woven of many threads, but its main theme is the de.
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