For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops(Kelly Mezurek,UA) generals Although much has been written

Although much has been written about their role in general

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ambitious young man who became the youngest full colonel in the United States Army at the age of twenty-one

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For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops(Kelly Mezurek,UA) generals Although much has been writtenby 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