Some More on the 27th USCT

From the Reconstruction Era  "27th USCT:  A Black regiment from Ohio & Miscarriage of Justice" by Patrick Young.

The 27th USCT was the second black infantry regiment formed in Ohio.  Earlier Ohio Blacks had joined the  54th Massachusetts earlier in the war.  The first regiment of black troops in Ohio was the 5th Ohio USCT.

Patrick Young took much of his article from the book "For Their Own Cause:: The United States Colored Troops" by Kelly Mezurek.  Looks like an interesting read, especially concerning their actions at Fort Fisher, the Wilmington and North Carolina Campaigns, which also included their advance and occupation of the town where I was born, Goldsboro, North Carolina.

--Old B-Runner