Louis Green and Joseph Sanders/John Curry

Louis Green and Joseph Sanders/John Curry. Tybee Island African Americans. , Louis Green and Joseph Sanders , world war one Veterans, Employees of Hotel Tybee, 1910s , Louis Green and Joseph Sanders both listed their residence as Tybee on their draft registration and were reported in the newspaper as men from Chatham County who were drafted from Tybee. However, neither Green nor Sanders lived on the island full time. Both were employees of C.F. Stubbs at Hotel Tybee. Green worked as a waiter and Sanders as a laborer. Draft cards from this period indicate that individuals often listed their place of employment as their permanent address. Changes of residences and /or other mailing difficulties during wartime may have contributed to this trend. Green was actually from rural Cuthbert, Georgia, and Sanders, like many other employees in the tourism industry, was from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina., Private Louis Green was honorably discharged on January 22, 1919, two years after filling out his draft registration. Private Joseph Sanders died of pulmonary tuberculosis at Fort Gordon, Georgia just six months after filling out his draft registration. With little in the way of antibiotics or treatment, respiratory illnesses, especially tuberculosis and Spanish flu, spread rapidly in military camps and claimed the lives of many, even before they went to war., , John Curry , Fisherman, Expert Waterman. world war one Veteran and Escort to General Eisenhower, 1910s-1960s , John Curry was renowned for his knowledge of the rivers and waterways around Tybee Island. He was prominent in the oyster industry and a skilled fisherman., During Dwight Eisenhower's pre-Presidential campaign visit to Savannah, Mr. Curry escorted the General around the inlet, familiarizing the seasoned war veteran with the local waterways. Writer Tom Smith remembers Curry's nautical prowess in the book, Tybee Days: "John Curry knew the rivers and creeks well. He rarely got skunked on fishing trips. In bootlegging days, liquor was sent from Bimini to Savannah via the sea buoy and John Curry.", Curry, a world war one veteran, was stationed at Fort Gordon as were Louis Green and Joseph Sanders. The men in this panel are among over 3,000 Black soldiers stationed at Camp Gordon, just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, during world war one., (captions) , John Curry in his Boat , Discharge and Death in Service Papers for Green (Top) and Sanders (Bottom)