Percy Seivewright Stoby moved to the UK from Guyana and served in the British Army during World War One. David Matthews ... his great-uncle Percy and other black officers who faced discrimination ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

His life connected three centuries, along with every conflict from the American Frontier Wars to World ... Soldiers Greater Washington DC Chapter) In the years following the Civil War, some Black ...

The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent ... who did not report three life-threatening wounds, including one to his head, to his officers.