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Mitten: African Americans in the Civil War
By the second year of the Civil War, the Union Army began accepting African Americans as soldiers. Michigan organized a regiment of black soldiers in August of 1862, the First Michigan Colored Infantry. This edition of the Mitten follows the progress of this unit, as well as detailing the battle at Fort Wagner with the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, one of the African American regiments in the war.
