Sentence examples for colored troops from inspiring English sources

He got his owner to free him and he joined the 39th Regiment, United States Colored Troops.

"At Bardstown in Nelson County, Kentucky, a mob brutally lynched a United States Colored Troops veteran," we learn.

Far more thrilling to me was the fact that, during the Civil War, he had served in the U.S. Colored Troops.

During the Civil War Higginson accepted command of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, later the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, the first black regiment in the U.S. armed forces.

With the organization of the 1st Alabama Infantry of African Descent, later renamed the 55th United States Colored Troops, the camp lost most of its able-bodied men.

After six months with the Contraband Hospital, Augusta left to become a regimental surgeon for the Seventh Infantry of United States Colored Troops in Maryland.

Armed soldiers in dun-colored camouflage trooped up and down Wuhouci Hengjie, a tree-shaded lane that is home to two government offices.

Piety and the marketplace mingle as people with backpacks, prayer wheels, chic hats and bright-colored underwear troop up and down the ribbon-like highways that lead from one sacred spot to another.

Charts and maps adorned with colored pushpins signified troop and ship positions; a box nearby has extra pins at the ready.

Air National Guard, Army National Guard and Marine Reserve troops carried them on brightly colored plastic litters, five troops to a patient.

Some of the headgear for some of the Imperial troops was quite peculiar, involving the used of long, colored, "bear" hair.