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December 15, 2021

United States Colored Troops

December 15, 2021

200 000 African Americans were organized under the United States Colored Troops (USCT) and fought throughout the duration of the Civil War. In one of the major battles of the war, on this day in 1864, during the Battle of Nashville on December 15-16, the 13th U.S.C.T held forth the Confederate army even though it suffered heavy casualties.

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