J. R. Kealoha

J. R. Kealoha was an American Union Army soldier of Native Hawaiian descent. He enlisted in 1864 as a private and was assigned to the 41st Regiment United States Colored Troops. He fought in the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign, better known as the Siege of Petersburg. He died on March 5, 1877, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Honolulu’s Oʻahu...