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John Wayles Jefferson (born John Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil War. He is believed to be a grandson of Thomas Jefferson; his paternal grandmother is Sarah (Sally) Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's mixed-race slave and half-sister to his wife.
20. Juli 2020 · John Wayles Jefferson was a Union officer in the Civil War and the grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, his slave mistress. He kept his "colored blood" a secret and is buried in Madison, Wisconsin, near his family.
John Wayles Jefferson was the grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, but he hid his mixed-race heritage to pursue a successful career in the Union Army and business. Learn about his life, family, and legacy in this biography by the American Battlefield Trust.
John Wayles Jefferson, the oldest child of Eston Hemings and Julia Isaacs Jefferson, lived as an African American in southern Ohio until the age of fifteen, when his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, changed their surname from Hemings to Jefferson, and thereafter lived as white people.
John Wayles (January 31, 1715 – May 28, 1773) was a colonial American planter, slave trader and lawyer in colonial Virginia. He is historically best known as the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
Col. John Wayles Jefferson by Alexander Marquis, ca. 1864. Courtesy of the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Civil War: Military Service. The Civil War was a seminal event for the descendants of Monticello slaves. For some, it was an opportunity to fight for the cause of freedom.
John Wayles Jefferson rose from major to colonel, at times in command of the regiment. A highly visible figure in the Union army, he was a man in hiding, only a decade removed from life as a black teenager in Ohio. In the middle of the war, he encountered someone he had known in Chillicothe, who recalled the meeting in 1902:
