Alex Turner (slave)
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Alex Turner was a slave who escaped from his plantation at the start of the Civil War, and joined the 1st New Jersey Cavalry under the Union army.
In the Spring of 1863, Turner guided his regiment to his old plantation in Port Royal, Virginia where he killed his former overseer.
At the end of the war, Turner returned to New England where he worked as a logger.
In 1883, his daughter Daisy Turner was born. Daisy can be seen reciting Civil War poetry, at the remarkable age of 104, in Ken Burns' critically acclaimed PBS documentary The Civil War.
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