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- Please keep in mind that the white officers lead the Indian & coloredtroops. Plus, they usually were given the worst assignments, andoften were in the thick of the fighting as front guard troops. And ofcourse, we know that the Indians were also the scouts in many of thestories of the Western wars.
Source: Book-HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA ITS PAST ANDPRESENT AND CONDENSED HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Chicago, Ill., Brown,Runk & Co., Publishers. http://persi.heritagequestonline.com
Page1181--1182: "Col. Silas Hunter, farmer, post-office Jamestown,Penn., was born on the homestead where he now resides May 26, 1832.... Our subject, Silas, grew to manhood on his present homestead, and inthe spring of 1856 removed to Kansas. In 1861 (Civil War) he enlistedin the First Kansas Infantry, subsequently serving as first lieutenantin the Second Regiment Indian Home Guards, and major of the EleventhRegiment United States Colored Infantry, from which he was transferredwith the same rank to the Fifty-seventh United States ColoredInfantry. He afterward filled the ranks of lieutenant-colonel andcolonel successively, of the last mentioned regiment, and was musteredout December 20, 1866. He was then, for meritorious services,commissioned first Lieutenant of the Thirty-eighth United StatesInfantry, with eighteen months advance pay, but declined the position. Upon sickness of his father he returned to Mercer County, and on hisdeath took charge of the old homestead. Col. Hunter was marriedFebruary 9, 1871, to Sarah C. Sinclair, of Jamestown, Penn., who isthe mother of five children: James, Charles, Mary, Stanley and Alice.The family belong to the United Presbyterian Church. Politically Col.Hunter is a stanch Republican, and in 1878 was elected sheriff ofMercer County, and served one term. He has always taken a deepinterest in the growth and prosperity of his native county."[Transcribed 07 October 2006, SLJuhl, compiler]
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