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This online database is a work in progress. It was assembled by ALBA board member Chris Brooks, based on earlier lists compiled by Lincoln Brigade veteran Adolph “Buster” Ross. The main goal of this project is simple: to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic, to include as much accurate information as is available on each of them, and to point users to related materials in the ALBA archives.
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Amos Archer
Archer provided conflicting information on his place of birth. His passport information indicated that he was born in Scranton, Mississippi, on February 16, 1897. In Spain, however, Archer stated that he was born in Santiago, Cuba and that he moved to the United States in 1907. Little is known about Archer's childhood. At an unknown point he moved to Youngstown, Ohio where he worked as a truck driver. Archer joined the Communist party in 1931. Five years later he ran for election as a State Representative on the Communist ticket. Archer departed for Europe aboard the SS Franconia, on November 12, 1937. In Spain he served as a cook first for the U.S. training base in Tarazona, and later for the Lincoln-Washington Battalion. Archer returned to the United States aboard the SS Paris on December 15, 1938.On March 5, 1939, Archer was killed in Youngstown, Ohio, in an incident related to his relationship with a woman.
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