For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops(Kelly Mezurek,UA) Section - Farms at Gettysburg Lincoln accepted the invitation

Lincoln accepted the invitation

By: 2nd South Carolina

The bloodstains are gone

commanders on both sides brought their armies to the brink of destruction without even knowing it

and Tragic Hits: What Was It Like For the Citizens of 1863

For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops(Kelly Mezurek,UA) Section - Farms at Gettysburg Lincoln accepted the invitationby 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