would serve as a sergeant in the U.S. Army and fight in the American Civil War to end the enslavement of Black people. But, first, how did he get to America? When he was about 9 or 10 years old ...
The white officers who led the charge had been the first to ... than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves better. “It fell to black sergeants to keep the ...