National Parks website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRiley Burns<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
One of the earliest entries for Burns was for Riley Burns from Bath County, Kentucky. He enlisted in 1863 at Vicksburg when he was 37 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The record shows that Riley was assigned on October 1863 to the ship Judge Torrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His naval rank was 1st Class Boy. This usually referred to young men who signed up when they were under eighteen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nLouis Burns<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
One of the later entries was for a sailor who enlisted at Point Lookout in April 1864. Louis Burns was twenty-two years old and his birthplace was in Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before he enlisted, he was a brickmaker and bricklayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Louis was mustered to the ship Wyandank on the first of July, 1865.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His naval rank was Landsman. This was the lowest rank in that era. It was given to recruits with little sea experience.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2010 U.S. Census recorded 23,329 black Americans with Burns as their last name. That represented 14% of the total of 165,925 entries. This article compares census numbers before and after the Civil War. We also look at historic African American people named Burns in the last three centuries. We end with a review of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}