We made the cover!
The Amen Society's statuary tribute to the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, made the cover of the Western Missouri Civil War Round Table's monuments and memorials' guide!
We, Brooks Chapel AME Church members, founded the Amen Society in 1999; commissioned this statue's design and construction and dedicated this monument's placement on the Bates County Courthouse lawn, in Butler, of the Civil War's first black combat soldiers in 2008.
The State of Missouri in 2012 dedicated a 40-acre historic site to their "Battle of Island Mound, Missouri," of October 28-29, 1862 in Bates County, 7 miles from Butler, near the Kansas border.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
FIRST KANSAS COLORED VOLUNTEER INFANTRY'S COVER STORY!
We made the cover!
The Amen Society's statuary tribute to the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, made the cover of the Western Missouri Civil War Round Table's monuments and memorials' guide!
We, Brooks Chapel AME Church members, founded the Amen Society in 1999; commissioned this statue's design and construction and dedicated this monument's placement on the Bates County Courthouse lawn, in Butler, of the Civil War's first black combat soldiers in 2008.
The State of Missouri in 2012 dedicated a 40-acre historic site to their "Battle of Island Mound, Missouri," of October 28-29, 1862 in Bates County, 7 miles from Butler, near the Kansas border.