On either Jan. 22 or 23 of 1865, about 80 soldiers from Company E of the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry set out from Camp Nelson, Ky., to Louisville with 900 head of cattle. “They had been enslaved until recently; now they were fighting for the Union as free men.

Forty men walked in front of the herd and 4

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