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The Opium-addicted Pistol Toting Preacher Who Raised the First Federal African American Union Troops
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WILLIAM BURTCH
DONNA BURTCH
An ordained abolitionist white officer is appointed by President Lincoln to recruit the first federal African American Union Army troops after the Emancipation Proclamation. Hundreds of courageous Black men and former slaves come forth in early May, 1863, only to be forever erased from War Department records. This, seemingly due to a perceived slight and overstep…