The Battle of Island Mound

On a frigid January evening in 1862, twenty-two year old George Washington escapes the bonds of slavery in Missouri for free soil in Kansas, and joins the first African-American Union regime... Read allOn a frigid January evening in 1862, twenty-two year old George Washington escapes the bonds of slavery in Missouri for free soil in Kansas, and joins the first African-American Union regiment to ever see combat in the Civil War. The outcome of the first-ever battle between those... Read allOn a frigid January evening in 1862, twenty-two year old George Washington escapes the bonds of slavery in Missouri for free soil in Kansas, and joins the first African-American Union regiment to ever see combat in the Civil War. The outcome of the first-ever battle between those vastly outnumbered former slaves and rebel horsemen, known as Bushwhackers, will play piv... Read all