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Freedom Will be Theirs By the Sword: The Battle of New Market Heights

  • Northern Illinois Civil War Roundtable 500 North Dunton Avenue Arlington Heights, IL, 60004 United States (map)

On September 29, 1864, fourteen Black men earned the Medal of Honor for their heroic charge against Confederate earthworks outside Richmond, Virginia, levaing hundreds of their own dead and wounded on the field. Learn the stories of former slaves and freemen who fought valiantly for a country that did not yet consider them citizens.

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