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    LOST USCT BATTLEFIELD

    Jan 22, 2019 3 minutes

    HE BATTLE OF BAYLOR’S FARM, which A. Wilson Greene mentioned in the opening of his article on Petersburg in the December 2018 issue, was the subject of André Castaigne’s epic painting “Charge of the 22nd Negro Regiment,” seen above, which is now at the West Point Museum in New York. That painting is often mistaken for other actions in the Petersburg Campaign, but it depicts the inaugural clash with Confederates on the morning of

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