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Bill to Honor Civil War’s Black Soldiers Reintroduced, Coinciding with Black History Month
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
Black History Month: Honoring the United States Colored Troops
The United States Colored Troops played a role in the history of Fort Fisher from the Civil War to World War II.
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THE Last Civil War Volunteers: The 125th U.S. Colored Infantry in New Mexico, 1866–1867
THE Last Civil War Volunteers: The 125th U.S. Colored ... troops in New Mexico, 1866–1869. Special Order 30, HQ, Fort Selden, 27 Feb 1867, copy in the Storey Letters; Fort Selden, N.M., Feb 1867, in ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states ... The first of these was the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, led ...
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Reported Mutiny Among the Colored Troops--The Cavalry Refuse to go South--They Quietly Submit to Being Disarmed.
The Colored Cavalry B[???]ade, consisting of the First, Second and Fifth United States Colored Cavalry ... hitherto been employed in transporting troops. To make everything o[???] ...
News Journal13d
Civil War and recognizing local black troops
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...
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Black Civil War soldier finally gets proper military burial — after star NYC journo family spends 15 years tracking down unmarked grave
Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy ... who escaped slavery to join the United States Colored Troops in 1863. This Veteran’s Day, he’ll be honored for the first time ever with a flag on ...
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Five questions for Jessie Cortesi , Senior Lincoln librarian, Rolland Center for Lincoln Research, Allen County Public Library
3 How does the story of the United States Colored Troops challenge traditional Civil War narratives ... collection to the state of Indiana. 5 For first-time visitors, what other Rolland Center ...
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African Americans in the Civil War
Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers ... Among the troops who attacked Southern positions at Saltville on October 2 were soldiers of the 5th United States Colored Cavalry.