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5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry Regiment
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/5th_Massachusetts_Colored_Cavalry_Regiment
GPTKB entity
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Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:Union_Army
United States Colored Troops regiment
gptkbp:activePeriod
1864–1865
gptkbp:allegiance
Union
gptkbp:branch
gptkb:Cavalry
gptkbp:composedOf
African American enlisted men
gptkbp:conflict
gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dateOrganized
January 9, 1864
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry Regiment
gptkbp:laterServedAs
gptkb:infantry
gptkbp:mustered_out
October 31, 1865
gptkbp:notableCommander
gptkb:Charles_Francis_Adams,_Jr.
Henry S. Russell
gptkbp:notableFor
one of the few African American cavalry regiments in the Civil War
gptkbp:notableMember
gptkb:James_Monroe_Trotter
gptkb:William_H._Carney
gptkb:Edward_Wilkinson
gptkb:Charles_L._Mitchell
William H. Dupree
George E. Stephens
gptkbp:officersWere
white
gptkbp:organizedAt
gptkb:Camp_Meigs,_Readville,_Massachusetts
gptkbp:parentOrganization
gptkb:United_States_Army
gptkbp:sawActionAt
gptkb:Appomattox_Campaign
gptkb:Petersburg,_Virginia
gptkbp:servedIn
Department of Virginia and North Carolina
gptkbp:state
gptkb:Massachusetts
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Colonel_Henry_S._Russell
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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