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| Trump declares his first national monument, honoring African-American troops |
| 2018-10-28 |
| [Stars & Stripes] President Donald Trump on Friday used his executive powers for the first time to designate a national monument, establishing a 380-acre site in Kentucky to honor African-Americans’ role as soldiers during the Civil War. The move won praise from local activists and conservationists but also criticism from several environmental groups, which noted Trump had used this same authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act last year to downsize two existing national monuments in Utah. Republicans had pushed for more than a year to establish a national monument at Camp Nelson in Nicholasville, Ky., which served as one of the largest recruitment and training depots for United States Colored Troops. While Kentucky was the last state in the Union to allow the enlistment of African-American men, the camp sent 23,000 of the roughly 180,000 black troops who fought on the Union’s side during the Civil War. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 And the Minnesota, Wisconsin Norwegian soldiers. 15th Wisconsin Regiment, Heg's Brigade, its companies adopted Scandinavian names like the St. Olaf Rifles, the Wergeland Guards, Odin’s Rifles, the Norway Bear Hunters, and the Scandinavian Mountaineers. The regiment’s flag contained a motto in Norwegian, “For Gud og Vort Land,” meaning “For God and Our Country’” The unit had 115 men whose first name was Ole. It participated in the battles of Perryville,Stones River, Orchard Knob, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, the Georgia Campaign, the battles of Chickamauga, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, and Jonesboro, as well as in the sieges of Chattanooga and Atlanta. 15th Wisconsin Infantry Marker Erected 1895 by State of Wisconsin. (Marker Number MT-1079.) |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-10-28 08:44 |