"10 Cents Bill" Yopp

As far as I know Bill Yopp is the only black and ex-slave buried in the Confederate Soldier Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia.  He entered the Civil War as a manservant for his “Master”.  While there he leaned how to play he drum and became the unit’s Drummer.  When his master was wounded and sent home he stayed as the drummer, CSA uniform and all.

After the war he became a doorman at the Georgia House of Representatives and became speaking terms with many of the legislators.  He convinced them to create a retirement home for old Confederate Soldiers.

I keep asking myself why would anybody devote themselves to the comfort of a group of people who fought to have the right to own his race like livestock?   He must have been a nut-job.