US Colored Troops, Mississippi
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US Colored Troops, Mississippi
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64th US Colored Troops; Second Regiment, Louisiana Native Guards (Corps d'Afrique) was the first group of Black troops to fight in the Civil War in Mississippi at Ship Island in April 1863. The First Mississippi Regiment (African Descent) was the first unit of black Mississippians to win a victory at Milliken's Bend near Vicksburg on June 7, 1863. More than 18,000 African Americans joined Union Army and Navy regiments based in Mississippi.
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