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Tag Archives: infantry

First Kansas African Regimental Flag

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 28, 1862

Today the First Kansas Colored Infantry, the first African Americans recruited in the Northern states for service in the Civil War, experience their first battlefield engagement. At Island Mound in Missouri’s Bates Country, a detachment of some 225 Kansas African American soldiers clash with five hundred Confederates. Although ten Kansas soldiers are killed and twelve…

October 28, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Battle of Seven Pines

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 31, 2012

Anxiety permeates Richmond, the Confederate capital. Union General George B. McClellan, months into a slow, steady drive toward Richmond, lurks on the outskirts of the city, along the Chickahominy River, with his 105,000 strong Union Army. Between McClellan and the city limits are 60,000 Confederate troops commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston. Going on the offensive,…

May 31, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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