These early accounts — Irwin’s journalism and Roosevelt’s later assessment — were the first layer of the documented record that researchers in the 1990s and 2000s could draw on when reconstructing the case for Johnson’s recognition.
## The Albany Monument
Albany, the city where Henry Johnson had worked as a redcap porter and where he had enlisted in 1917, erected a monument in his honor as part of the later recognition campaign.
The monument in Washington Park in Albany is a physical marker of the city’s claim on his story and of the community’s awareness of what he had done. Albany had a specific connection to Johnson that extended beyond his military service: he had been a recognizable figure in the city’s daily life, working a job that put him in contact with travelers and commuters, known in his neighborhood, part of the community in the specific way that people who do visible service work become known.
The monument placed that community connection in a public form: a marker in a city park that told passing Albanians and visitors that someone from this city had done something extraordinary in France in 1918.
## The 369th Regiment Today
The 369th Infantry Regiment continues to exist as a unit of the New York Army National Guard. The unit, now organized as the 369th Sustainment Brigade, carries the lineage and honors of the original Harlem Hellfighters, including the French Croix de Guerre that the regiment as a whole received for its World War I service.
The regiment’s museum — the 369th Veterans Association and Museum at the Harlem armory — maintains the historical record of the unit and its veterans. The armory on 142nd Street in Harlem, built in the 1920s, is both a working National Guard facility and a historical site that preserves the regiment’s legacy.