Mid-Missouri artist brings soldiers to life

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- No records were kept of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, so local artist Essex Garner was told. But he has thousands of photos from those soldiers' descendants to prove otherwise.

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