Henry Beard, Former Slave, Co. A 105th Illinois-- Part 1

Henry Beard was a former slave who mustered into Company A of the 105th Illinois Infantry Regiment in Tennessee in 1863.   He served as a cook for D Company.

After the war, he settled in Sycamore, Illinois,  with his wife, Judy Jones, also a former slave.

His daughter, Georgiana Beard, and her siblings attended the one-room North Grove School with neighboring Swedish children and learned to speak the language when it was the official language of the school.

--Old Secesh