'They chose to serve': United States Colored Troops members honored at City Cemetery
WILKES-BARRE — City Cemetery was the site of a wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday afternoon, during which local United States ...
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‘Revolutionary’: Projects uncover Kentucky’s Black history, one digital document at a time
joined the newly formed 108th U.S. Colored Infantry without his enslaver’s consent in June 1864. His biographical information is accessible through the U.S. Colored Troops Project at The ...
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History walk retraces path of United States Colored Troops
The walk retraced the steps of 1,800 United States Colored Troops who marched along what is now known as Federal Point Road in 1865, a route that leads to the Cameron Art Museum. Jones explained ...
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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
She soon enlisted genealogists to pull historic documents from the National Archive along with family-tree records and ... and serving in the United States Colored Troops’ 4th Heavy Field ...
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Talbot County’s United States Colored Troops fought with valor and honor
it allowed African Americans throughout the nation to serve in the Union Army as part of the United States Colored Troops. This gave Black Americans the opportunity to fight not only for their ...
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‘Revolutionary’: Projects uncover Kentucky’s Black history, one digital document at a time
Charles Mudd was 25 when he ran away from his enslaver’s farm in Washington County to join the U.S. Colored Troops to help the ... Engaging in this research provides us with the other side ...