First Michigan Colored Regiment
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N 42° 20.685 W 083° 01.405
17T E 333329 N 4690037
Located on the north side of Duffield School at the end of Macomb Street off of Chene. Parking available.
Waymark Code: WM13AC
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2007
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The First Michigan Colored Regiment was organized at Camp Ward, which originally stood on this location. Formed from August through October 1863, a year of draft riots and protests against the war, this Negro regiment consisted entirely of volunteers. During training, a regimental band was formed and toured southern Michigan to recruit additional volunteers. Mustered here as the 102nd U.S. Colored Troops, February 17, 1864, the nine hundred-man unit left Detroit March 28, 1864, for service in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. More than fourteen hundred men served in the regiment during nineteen months in the field; ten percent of this number died in service. The regiment was disbanded in October 1865 in Detroit.
Historical Date: 02/17/1864
Parking nearby?: yes
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website: [Web Link]
Registered Site #: Michigan Historical Commission Registered Historic Site #288
Historical Name: Not listed
Description: Not listed
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