#BlackHistoryMonth Documented on rosters of the history-making 47th Pennsylvania Infantry when the reg't departed for the #RedRiverCampaign on 25 Feb 1864 were Black soldiers who had enlisted with the 47th after being freed from slavery from plantations near Beaufort, SC
Also documented on the registers of the history-making 47th Pennsylvania? Several young Black soldiers who had enlisted with the 47th after being freed from slavery near Natchitoches, Louisiana:
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