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John Wayles Jefferson (born John Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil War. He is believed to be a grandson of Thomas Jefferson; his paternal grandmother is Sarah (Sally) Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's mixed-race slave and half-sister to his wife.
John Wayles Jefferson, the oldest child of Eston Hemings and Julia Isaacs Jefferson, lived as an African American in southern Ohio until the age of fifteen, when his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, changed their surname from Hemings to Jefferson, and thereafter lived as white people.
John Wayles Jefferson was the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, the man who penned “all men are created equal” and his slave Sally Hemings. However, he never publicly acknowledged these connections. If he did, then his status as an interracial Black man could come to light and jeopardize his positions in a society where your skin color meant ...
20 lug 2020 · When John Wayles Jefferson took command of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry in 1863, he had a unique personal connection to the Union he'd sworn to protect and defend. His grandfather was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.
Ten descendants of Monticello slaves on both sides of the color line are known to have fought in the Union army. Four, including John Wayles Jefferson and his brother Beverly Jefferson, sons of Eston Hemings Jefferson, fought in white regiments.
John Wayles (January 31, 1715 - May 28, 1773) was Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson's father and Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law. He was born in Lancaster, England, in 1715 and emigrated to Virginia, likely in the 1730s, though the date is not known.
John Wayles Jefferson rose from major to colonel, at times in command of the regiment. A highly visible figure in the Union army, he was a man in hiding, only a decade removed from life as a black teenager in Ohio.
