African-American Veterans of the Civil War in Kent County, MD

An article I wrote for this month’s Chesapeake Times about one of the many amazing historic buildings on fabulous Water Street in Chestertown is available.

 …In the end it was illness and not violence that killed a quarter of Kent County’s four hundred-plus black troops. The survivors returned with varying levels of medical disability, but that didn’t stop them from setting up a place where veterans could meet and enrich each others’ lives…”

Read the rest by clicking here and scrolling down to page 22.