The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown’s Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 (John Horn - CA) postcard George Armstrong Custer

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the experiences of these men from the 27th USCT gave the late-nineteenth-century Ohio black community legitimate hopes for access to equal civil and social rights for all

Its remarkable story is told here in full for the first time in John Horn’s The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown’s Hanging to Appomattox

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The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown’s Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 (John Horn - CA) postcard George Armstrong CusterThe Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Browns Hanging to Appomattox, 1859 1865 by John Horn Winner, 2019, Unit History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award The 12th Virginia has an amazing history. John Wilkes Booth stood in the ranks of one of its future companies at John Browns hanging. The regiment refused to have Stonewall Jackson appointed its first colonel. Its men first saw