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Officially 23, 703 Kentucky Africans responded to the
call to arms by President Lincoln
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and Frederick Douglass to join
the ranks of the newly organized United States Colored Troops.
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Thomas Speed, a Union Officer and Kentuckian, describes
in a letter to his wife, written
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February 25, 1865 about the fighting ability of the Kentucky
African Americans during the
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assault on Fort Fisher, North Carolina:
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There is a division of Negro troops here -- a great many
of them from Kentucky. You must
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not turn your nose when I say they fight splendidly. I
saw them tried yesterday. And out
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regiment saw it and they all acknowledge that we have
to give it up'...[these men] will fight.
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This site is dedicated to the memory of the 230,000 soldiers and 30,000
sailors
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who dared to dream -- I wonder how it feels to be free! They fought the
good fight:
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The survivors kept the faith and kept hope alive. Now, one hundred thirty-seven
years and five generations later: We are family; proud to be the
descendants, the Dream-keepers of our patriarch and
matriarch, the Dream Team:
Pvt. Ned Hopson b Trigg Co., KY d IL
Naomi [Griffin] Hopson, b TN d
KY
Before we were even aware of our selves; they dared to
care, to care about us.
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