Henry Mack and the 57th USCT-- Part 4: After the War

Mack was among the nearly 200,000 black Civil War soldiers and sailors.  He completed his three year enlistment as a corporal on the southwestern frontier, joking later in life  about the, long walk he had to make between Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and  and the New Mexico Territory.

After returning to Arkansas to search in vain for his mother, Mack moved to Omaha in the 1870s.  He married Martha Green, the widowed mother of  three in 1881 and worked as a janitor, a porter, carpenter and  plumber.

After Martha's death and the Omaha Race Riots in 1919, Mack moved to Minneapolis.

--Old Secesh