The Jayhawker and the Conductor: The Combahee Ferry Raid, 2 June 1863
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By James Stejskal NOTE: This article contains excerpts from contemporary official Union and Confederate reports that include racial epithets. Additional eyewitness accounts employ local “dialect” that may or may not […]
Soldier – Albert C. Johnson
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Albert Clinton Johnson – the man who would become the first African American colonel in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.