This site commemorates an 1862 Civil War fight in which the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry engaged Confederate guerrillas before Black soldiers were formally accepted into federal service nationwide. The landscape is preserved with trails, interpretation and memorial elements.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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