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[CIVIL WAR - U.S. COLORED INFANTRY]. We Fight for Our Rights, Liberty, Justice and Union. 61st Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry. N.d. [ca. 1865.] 555 x 450 mm. Engraved broadside with allegorical, historical, architectural and portrait borders. Laid down to linen backing, old dampstaining and soiling, wrinkles and tears, losses to blank margins, matted. A RARE BROADSIDE DETAILING THE MEMBERSHIP AND EXPLOITS OF THE 61ST U.S. COLORED INFANTRY. The regiment was mustered into service on August 27, 1863, at Lagrange, Tennessee, according to the prose sketch at the foot of the broadside, “from the freedmen who had sought refuge from bondage in the Federal Camp, and with one or two exceptions, all had been slaves.” Under the command of Colonel Frank A. Kendrick, the regiment saw action at Moscow and Eastport, Tennessee, and Harrisburg, Mississippi. “[T]he regiment did good service and won considerable praise from the Generals commanding and demonstrating to the satisfaction of all candid minds that colored men could be made very valuable to the Government as soldiers. They performed the severest marches and endured a great deal of hardship and fatigue almost with impunity.” The broadside includes lists of privates, officers, recruits, discharged, killed in action, died, and deserted. No examples are recorded in OCLC.