Robert Elliott Burns [SEP] conflict
Robert Elliott Burns
Robert Elliott Burns (May 10, 1892 – June 5, 1955) was a World War I veteran who gained notoriety after escaping from a Georgia chain gang and writing his memoirs, "I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!", exposing the cruelty and injustice of the chain gang system.
Biography.
Robert Burns was born in Palisades, New Jersey. In 1912, he had left his family and drifted throughout the United States as a laborer. Two days after the United
, 1887–1888
- John Elliott, Jun 1888-Dec 1888
- Robert Baxter Llewelyn, Dec 1888 - Jan 1889, "first time"
- Edward Laborde, Jan 1889 - Nov 1889, "second time"
- Robert Baxter Llewelyn, Nov 1889 - Sep 1890, "second time"
- Lawrence Riky Fyfe, Sep 1890 - Nov 1890
- Edward Rawle Drayton, 1890–1915
- Herbert Ferguson, 1915–1930
- Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood, 1930–1935
- William Leslie Heape, 1935–1940
- Charles Henry