For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops(Kelly Mezurek,UA) Section - Farms at Gettysburg and historic photographs

and historic photographs

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Edited by Peter Tsouras

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The first book in a trilogy about the military conflict that defined the twentieth century

For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops(Kelly Mezurek,UA) Section - Farms at Gettysburg and historic photographsby Kelly D. Mezurek The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from home. The men faced daily battles against racism and against inferior treatment, training, and supplies. They suffered from the physical difficulties of military life, the horrors of