Tools of War- Messenger Pigeons
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The U.S. Army has a long history of employing animals in various missions. From the oxen-drawn sleds of the Knox Expedition dragging cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights outside of Boston in 1776, the Camel Corps experiment in the Southwest during the mid-nineteenth century, the Army’s long history with horse cavalry, to the use of dogs in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, animals and the Army have long been intertwined
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.