Jones Morgan lived to see the bold plaudits of the fierce Buffalo Soldiers of the Wild West era finally restored in American history books.
When he died recently in Richmond, Va., his hometown for the past half century, the quiet, modest, diminutive man who frequented daytime shelters for meals was regarded as "a hero."
At 110 years old, he was the last member of the Army's only Black regiment during the Spanish-American War and the settling of the West.
For the last ...