National Parks website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nJoseph H. Fuller<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
One of the earliest entries for Fuller was for Joseph H. Fuller from New York City. He enlisted in 1862 at New London when he was twenty-three years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The record shows that Joseph was mustered on September 1863 to the ship Stars and Stripes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His naval rank was Ordinary Seaman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An ordinary seaman in the Navy is an apprentice who serves on the deck.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nStephen Fuller<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
One of the later entries was for a sailor who enlisted at Hampton Roads in December 1863. Stephen Fuller was twenty-six years of age and was from Norfolk, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was mustered to the ship Roman on July 1865.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His naval rank was 1st Class Boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c1st Class Boy\u201d was usually the rank given to young men who enlisted when they were under eighteen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2010 U.S. Census recorded 23,190 black Americans with Fuller as their last name. That represented 21% of the total of 110,116 entries. This article compares census numbers before and after the Civil War. We also look at historic African American people named Fuller in the last three centuries. We end with a review of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1130,"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\/1296"}],"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=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}