I, TOO, MUST CRY

Major Gilmore's life was fashioned and modeled after the life and challenges of his racially mixed father, Alonzo Gilmore. Alonzo, as a young teenager, witnessed the horrific death of his mother, Leah. Leah was struck by lightning while chopping cotton on the Gilmore Plantation. At the approximate age of 15 and the calendar year of approximately 1915. Alonzo, along with half-brothers, Benjamin and James, walked away from the Gilmore Plantation. The Boys set out for the state of Illinois. During