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The 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized in 1862 as a state unit. It was reorganized as the 79th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment and was the first black regiment to be organized in a northern state and the first to see combat during the Civil War.

Facts about the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment.

The 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment was one of the first African-American units to serve in the Union's volunteer army during the American Civil War.

The Pequot War was the first war in the New England area between English colonists and Native American Indians. The English won, nearly exterminated the Pequot, and took control of the Connecticut River Valley.