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Carrying the Colors: The Life and Legacy of Medal of Honor Recipient Andrew Jackson Smith

By W. Robert Beckman, Sharon S. MacDonald, Andrew S. Bowman (Editor), Esther L. Bowman (Editor)
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By W. Robert Beckman, Sharon S. MacDonald, Andrew S. Bowman (Editor), Esther L. Bowman (Editor)
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An Escaped Slave who Fought for the Union and Whose Wartime Heroism was Finally Recognized with the Nation's Highest Honor for Military Valor

In 1862, Andrew “Andy” Jackson Smith, son of a white landowner and enslaved woman, es­caped to Union troops operating in Kentucky, made his way to the North, and volunteered for the 55th Massachusetts, one of the newly formed African American regiments. The regiment was deployed to South Carolina, and during a desperate assault on a Confederate battery...

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