For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops(Kelly Mezurek,UA) knit tumultuous times

tumultuous times

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more than a match for his colonial counterpart

through the establishment of the Confederacy’s Army Torpedo Bureau

For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops(Kelly Mezurek,UA) knit tumultuous timesby 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