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Final Moments of a Civil War Cavalry Officer – Battlefield Relics Discovered!
History comes to life as we metal detect the very battlefield where a Civil War cavalry officer met his ... a glimpse into the last stand of a brave soldier. Canada retaliates after Trump confirms ...
Berkshire Eagle24d
The overlooked story of Wesley Ford, a Civil War soldier from Great Barrington
The 1st Cavalry’s Company I included men from Pittsfield ... No record of Exp[iration of service].” U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 identifies Ford’s suffering a battlefield ...
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Buffalo Soldiers, the National Parks and the Presidio of Monterey
An important aspect of the 9th Cavalry was that it was a segregated or “colored” unit, one of several formed after the Civil War to allow ... African American soldiers from this era were ...
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Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...
Fort Myers Beach Talk12d
Those who have Civil War ancestors find camaraderie within the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...
Lexington Herald Leader20d
One-fourth of federal staff fired at Civil War site that housed Black Union soldiers in KY
Information about Samuel Truehart, a private in the U.S. Colored Cavalry ... the 13-member staff at the Civil War site that at one point housed 10,000 Black Union soldiers. The cuts were part ...