Posted on Dec 22, 2019

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Captain Richard Etheridge, a Union Army veteran, became the first African- American to command a Life-Saving station when the service appointed him as the keeper of the Pea Island Life-Saving Station in North Carolina in 1880.

Richard_Etheridge.pdf

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Richard_Etheridge.pdf

Richard_Etheridge.pdf

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