When
Freedom Cried Out
The Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
George Sharkley
"Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel George Sharkley, of the United States Volunteers, and captain of the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, for long, faithful, and valuable services, to date from April 9, 1865."
"Brevet Major George Sharkley, Captain of the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, for gallantry and meritorious services at Fort Steedman, Virginia, to date from March 25, 1865."
" Finally, after Charles F. Rand, Freedmen's Bureauqv agent and winner of a Presidential Medal of Honor for bravery in action during the Civil War, fled from the county fearing for his life in August 1868, a detachment of federal troops under Maj. George Starkley(sic) was stationed in Clarksville."