Charles Remond Douglass | |
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Born | |
Died | November 23, 1920 | (aged 76)
Resting place | Columbian Harmony Cemetery Washington, D.C. |
Nationality | American |
Spouses | Mary Elizabeth Murphy
(m. 1866; died 1879)Laura Haley (m. 1880) |
Children | 7 (including Joseph Douglass and Haley George) |
Parent(s) | Frederick Douglass Anna Murray Douglass |
Relatives | Douglass family |
Charles Remond Douglass (October 21, 1844 – November 23, 1920) was the third and youngest son of Frederick Douglass and his first wife Anna Murray Douglass. He was the first African-American man to enlist in the military in New York during the Civil War, and served as one of the first African-American clerks in the Freedmen's Bureau in Washington, D.C.