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Former camp slaves attend a veterans’ reunion in Tampa, Florida, in 1927. Steve Perry (“Uncle Steve Eberhart”) is fifth from the left and holds a Confederate flag, while Louis Napoleon Nelson sits on the far right with his bugle. The individual in…

Steve Perry, known as “Uncle Steve Eberhart,” proved to be a popular attraction with white audiences at veterans’ reunions owing to his stories of foraging during the war and his practice of carrying two chickens under each arm.