What Cause?

Bill Yopp went to war with his masteer, to be his man servant.  His master was wounded and left.  Bill stayed on as a drummer.

Bill died as an ex-slave.  Before his death he was a doorman of  the Georgia State Legislation Building.  He politicked state representatives to build a retirement home for Confederate Soldiers, which he succeeded.   

He is the only person of color buried in the Marietta Confederate Cemetery. 

I think he was nuts.